 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...  America First: Patriotic Readings - Page 259by Jasper Leonidas McBrien - 1916 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...architecture of the snow. HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; 6 Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...19, 1836. It is simple and pleasing, and we are glad to find one extract which we can praise. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, \Vhen like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit ! who made those freemen dare To die, or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...Lost in God, in Godhead found. HYMN. SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, APKIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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 freemen dare To die, or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...in God, in Godhead found.' HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, April 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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 dare To die, or... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...DICKENS to this new world. ON THE COMPLETION OF THE MONUMENT AT CONCORD, APRIL, 1836. BY BW EMERSON. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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 dare To die, or... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...Emerson, speaking of the first shot of the Revolution fired at the old bridge at Cuncord, says : " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, There once the embattled fanners Btood And fired the -hut heard round the world." H>w wonderfully the... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 504 pages
...event. When it was erected, Emerson wrote the following hymn for the ceremony : APRIL 19, 1836. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft strewn, We see to-day a votive stone, That... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 516 pages
...nrehed the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here onee the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world "The foe long...Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream that scawnnl creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft stream, We sec to-day a votive stone, That... | |
 | James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
... . •1^HI\v/)9f•^ '.'.-** )ln '2X0 WfiSfl® teW* 1 ' HARPER'S FERR\ r " By the rude Bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...breeze unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers Hood, And fired the mot heard round the World." RW EMERSON. JAMES REDPATH. BOSTON: THAYER AND ELDRIDGE,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...physical resistance was made to the soldiers of George III. by his revolutionary colonies — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Where once the embattled fiirmera stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." But within these... | |
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