 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...  Elson Grammar School Readers - Seite 350von William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 Seiten
...the stone on our right, it "gave peace to these United States." As a Concord poet has sung : — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. " The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1893 - 1194 Seiten
...that makes constant pilgrimage to Lexington and Concord, and reads with tear-dimmed eyes, — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmer stood And fired the shot heard round the woild " ? Who is it that presses to the foot of Bunker... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 310 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Granville Bradley - 1894 - 636 Seiten
...universities ; in the green meadows close to the village of Concord, with Emerson at his side — 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 ; he realised the beginnings of the War of Independence. On his... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - 1893 - 248 Seiten
...in the North Countree But is lord of the earldom as much as he. 3. HYMN ON THE FIGHT AT CONCORD. 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... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1894 - 446 Seiten
...advanced to Concord Bridge, and in the skirmish here the Americans returned the British fire. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Hero once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." * * From RW Emerson's... | |
 | 1895 - 220 Seiten
...find here many objects of historical and literary interest. Concord is revered, not only because " 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," but because here lived Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1895 - 546 Seiten
...before he had written the hymn sung at the completion of the monument commemorating Concord fight ; 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. '895. ] 2O: This is one of the best, and one of the best known,... | |
 | 1902 - 1548 Seiten
...us God's speed in this high mission of advancing the lofty principles of our brave ancestors who "By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, And there the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world." SPECIAL 1.T FETING,... | |
 | Judith Peacock - 2002 - 52 Seiten
...Concord (shown here) helped to pull the 13 colonies closer together. "The Shot 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. These words from "The Concord Hymn" by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson... | |
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