 | Stephen M. Feldman - 2000 - 288 pages
...rendition of that history based primarily on poetry. He began with Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn": By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.108 The Chief Justice then turned to the story of Francis Scott... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 pages
...36. Sadly, toward the end of his life, he was leaning toward Unitarianism. 8.1.2 EMERSON, DOUBTER By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Concord Hymn," first sung at the... | |
 | Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll - 2000 - 486 pages
...guns.They didn't succeed: The muskets went out the back door with their owners. Emerson said it best: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. King George called us "rabble in arms." But with God's grace,... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - 532 pages
...beautiful verse that beyond all others he has written gives Emerson a right to the title of poet: "By this rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world."" After so much sightseeing we were happy enough to accept the... | |
 | Stephen Hart - 2000 - 229 pages
...inscription at its base. The first verse of Emerson's "Concord Hymn" was carved into its base: By the ridge bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. Jake poked his nose at the base of the pedestals and gave nothing... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 2001 - 422 pages
...opening battles of the Revolution. It became the best known of all his verses, with the opening lines: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...stood And fired the shot heard round the world. The Harvard address on August 3 1 was attended by numerous luminaries, including two Supreme Court justices,... | |
 | Sarah Chapin, Claiborne Dawes, Alice Moulton - 2001 - 102 pages
...commemoration of the battle monument that was sung to "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow:" By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to...unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. David Wallis Reeves wrote a march for the centennial celebration... | |
 | Thomas Sowell - 2001 - 224 pages
...called the quiet repeal of the American revolution. IV The Quiet Repeal of the American Revolution By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Revolutionary War for American independence... | |
 | 1897 - 1168 pages
...people. This verse of Ralph Waldo Emerson is inscribed on the base of the statue of the Minute Man: " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." To-day as we come to commemorate Washington's birth day, I think... | |
 | 1902 - 1548 pages
...us God's speed in this high mission of advancing the lofty principles of our brave ancestors who "By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, And there the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world." SPECIAL 1.T FETING,... | |
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BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. 
