 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
 | Brian O'Connell, John William Gardner - 1999 - 180 pages
...monument to the Minutemen who took their stand at Concord Bridge. 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... | |
 | United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) - 1999 - 1238 pages
...the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror in silence sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...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... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - 2000 - 426 pages
...long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has wept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this...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... | |
 | Jean Pottle - 2000 - 136 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, who made those... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 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 A. Fletcher, Robert B. Fletcher - 2002 - 156 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 today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Concord... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - 2007 - 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...swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem,... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 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. That memory may their deed redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen... | |
 | Tim Smith - 2002 - 100 pages
...Thoreau lived in the house during two separate periods: one before and one after his time at Walden Pond. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When , like our sires , our sons are gone . . . — Ralph Waldo... | |
 | Jacqueline Glasthal - 2003 - 76 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 today a votive stone; f That memory may their deed redeem, jf When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made... | |
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