 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...load. He watched with eager search the belfry tower. So through the night rode Paul R«vero ; And BO through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex...darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevennore ! For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the... | |
 | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Ohio Commandery - 1888 - 464 pages
...And the spark, struck out by that steed in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat .... So through the night rode Paul Revere, And so through...darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forever more! For borne on the night wind of the past, Through all our history to the last, In the... | |
 | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Ohio Commandery - 1888 - 542 pages
...the spark, struck out by that steed in his flight,' Kindled the land into flame with its heat .... So through the night rode Paul Revere, And so through...darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forever more! For borne on the night wind of the past, Through all our history to the last, In the... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - 1888 - 446 pages
...their danger: " So through the night rode Paul Revere, So through the night went his cry of alarm, A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the...the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore ! " The poet Longfellow wrote a famous poem on Paul Revere's ride, from which the lines above are extracted.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 254 pages
...skirt its edge, Now soft on the sand, now loud on the Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. It was twelve by the village clock, When he crossed the...fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 220 pages
...at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Eevere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To...darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore ! For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1890 - 304 pages
...that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball. You know the rest. In the books yon have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled,...darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore ! For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Tlrnmgh all our history, to the last, In the... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...British musket ball. You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars tired and fled — How the farmers gave them ball for ball,...word that shall echo for evermore! For borne on the night wind of the past Through all our history to the last In the hour of darkness and peril and need... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 344 pages
...fired and fled ; How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard-wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore ! 1 Concord: Revere himself did not succeed in reaching Concord; but the alarm was carried there by... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 pages
...HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard Chasing the redcoats down the lane, Then crossing...darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore ! For, borne on the night- wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the... | |
| |
You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again... 
