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. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined... Select Essays and Poems - Page 73by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1888 - 228 pages
...silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the daik stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1889 - 702 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Mary Prudence Wells Smith - 1889 - 286 pages
...second verse too, do you ? '• said Herbert, spouting on: — " ' The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept — ' " " This is intolerable ! " cried Gifford, rolling over impatiently. " Intolerable ! Why, it... | |
| 1890 - 168 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 344 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined...swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 2 That memory may her dead redeem,... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 342 pages
...silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 2 That memory may her dead redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Julian Hawthorne, William Leonard Lemmon - 1891 - 428 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit that made those heroes... | |
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