 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...  The Indiana School Journal - Page 2341897Full view - About this book
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897 - 220 pages
...following song was written for the -"" ^ occasion by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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... | |
 | Edwin Monroe Bacon - Boston (Mass.) - 1897 - 466 pages
...4, 1837, incised in the panel on the front face of the pedestal : — By Ihe rnde bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the uhot hoard round the world. On the roar face are simply the dutos: " 1770.... | |
 | Walter Learned - American poetry - 1897 - 338 pages
...HYMN. (Sung at the completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836). 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... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...memory may their deed redeem When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Y 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... | |
 | John Wesley Freese - Buildings - 1897 - 162 pages
...LOVE OF FREEDOM, THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED, AD 1836. THE BATTLE GROUND. 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. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - Political Science - 2000 - 264 pages
...immortalized by the thrilling, dramatic lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 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. They bled on the slopes of Bunker Hill that... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - Law - 2000 - 285 pages
...primarily on poetry. He began with Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn": 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.108 The Chief Justice then turned to the story... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...generations of America's schoolchildren knew him primarily through this poem. 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... | |
 | Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll - History - 2000 - 486 pages
...muskets went out the back door with their owners. Emerson said it best: 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. King George called us "rabble in arms." But... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...others he has written gives Emerson a right to the title of poet: "By this 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."" After so much sightseeing we were happy enough... | |
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