 | 1879 - 592 pages
...Concord, and the grandson of the pastor of the village who was present at the time of the conflict : By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The other scene is Mount Vernon, the unadorned yet spacious wooden mansion where Washington spent his latest... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 430 pages
...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...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. u The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1874 - 560 pages
...tablet tells us the newly springing sod was fertilized by the life-blood of the first slain foeman. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...stood And fired the shot heard round the world." The ground upon which the monument stands was given to the town by Dr. Kipley in 1834, for the purpose,... | |
 | Lexington (Mass.) - 1875 - 198 pages
...farmers, as a class, may never be less patriotic than on that "glorious morning " when, — "Their flags to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." The President. — Lexington is proud to share the honors of the iQth of April with the goodly array of... | |
 | 1879 - 624 pages
...who was present at the time of the conflict : By the rude bridge that arched the Hum). Their fliuf to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The other scene is Mount Vernon, the unadorned yet spacious wooden mansion where Washington spent his latest... | |
 | Lexington (Mass.) - 1875 - 198 pages
...never be less patriotic than on that " glorious morning " when, — "Their flags to April's bree/e unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." The President. — Lexington is proud to share the honors of the igth of April with the goodly array of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...lovest all. CONCORD FIGHT. HYMN SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. BY Hie rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's...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, and leave their... | |
 | 1876 - 558 pages
...the unveiling of the statue last year on the one-hundredth anniversary of the famous battle : — By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...And time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark ttream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ;... | |
 | Concord (Mass.) - 1876 - 208 pages
...hammered, across the middle of which, in incised and bronzed letters, are these lines of Emerson : — BY THE RUDE BRIDGE THAT ARCHED THE FLOOD THEIR FLAG TO...STOOD AND FIRED THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. The rear face is similar to the front, and on the panel in high relief the inscription : — I775 NINETEENTH... | |
 | Concord (Mass.), Concord (Mass ). - 1876 - 182 pages
...hammered, across the middle of which, in incised and bronzed letters, are these lines of Emerson : — BY THE RUDE BRIDGE THAT ARCHED THE FLOOD THEIR FLAG TO...STOOD AND FIRED THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. The rear face is similar to the front, and on the panel In high relief the inscription : — 1775 NINETEENTH... | |
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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... 
