...God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. EMEKSON (Voluntaries). 83 BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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...

...completion of the Battle Monument, his immortal Concord Hymn was sung, to the tune of Old Hundred : — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to...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...

...1836 on the scene of this skirmish, stands engraved the first verse of Emerson's Concord Hymn — "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; Here ouce the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." For the next eight years...

...April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot hear4 round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror...sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the daik stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone...

...the pen of Emerson, destined, like the shot he celebrates, to be " heard round the world " — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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...

...benefit of men. 1878. CONCORD HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. T3Y the rude bridge that arched the flood, -*-' Their...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...

...seas I have never felt at home, never wholly been at ease. THE CONCORD HYMN. BY the nul'- bridge tuat 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...

...COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. T3Y the rude bridge that arched the flood, -1— ' 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...

...crossing of the Rubicon was more than the crossing of a river. Concord was more than a skirmish. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world." The attack upon Sumter was more than the storming of an indeien...

...almost asleep. " Oh, you want the second verse too, do you ? '• said Herbert, spouting on: — " ' The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror...silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept — ' " " This is intolerable ! " cried Gifford, rolling over impatiently. " Intolerable ! Why, it...