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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 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 ; w That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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 Baldwin - 1897 - 220 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... | |
| William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 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...has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. Spirit that made those heroes dare To die or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...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...has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. )n this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; w That memory may their deed... | |
| 1897 - 568 pages
...heard round the world. When, like our sires, our sons are gone. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined...has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 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 Noble - 1898 - 460 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... | |
| Julian Hawthorne, William Leonard Lemmon - 1891 - 376 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... | |
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