 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 93by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 314 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 bridge has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft stream, We see to-day a votive stone, That... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 328 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... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896 - 268 pages
...Monument, April 19, 1836.) By the rude bridge that arched the flood, 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... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 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... | |
 | 1896 - 532 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... | |
 | James Russell Parsons - 1896 - 140 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... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1896 - 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,... | |
 | Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - 1912 - 428 pages
...story it tells, to all time: On this green bank, by this soft stream, \Ve set to-day a votive stone: That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. ACCEPTANCE OF TABLET. Mayor FB McClaln was present to accept the tablet on behalf of tie city, and... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 430 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... | |
 | Walter Learned - 1897 - 338 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 dead redeem. When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
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