 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 pages
...in Godhead found.' CONCORD HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, APKIL 19, 1836. Br the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creepSo On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1884 - 572 pages
...lines from a poem written by the American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, to commemorate the event: — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." THE NEW ENGLAND STATES DURING THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE Scale of __T 1 100 Miles CHAPTER VII. OPEN WAR.... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...said a better word for our earliest battleground than this immortal verse t — " By the rude hridge 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." Or the 4th of July Ode read at Concord in... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 412 pages
...bugle; answer, echoes—dying, dying, dying. 22. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, TENNYSOS. Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. EMERSON. 23. Down the dark future, through long generations,... | |
 | William Willder Wheildon - 1885 - 44 pages
...Celebration of April I9th, 1875. In front, on the pedestal, are these lines from Mr. Emerson's ode : " 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." On the rear face of the pedestal is this inscription : '775NINETEENTH... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...burning bush of Scripture, out of which Moses heard God calling him. CLASSIC RKADER. BY the rude bridge1 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.2 The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1885 - 390 pages
...ours. We do not grudge you your Marathon of Bunker Hill, and we can repeat as proudly as you— " By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurled; In arms the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." And I will tell you... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1886 - 392 pages
...ours. We do not grudge you your Marathon of Bunker Hill, and we can repeat as proudly as you — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurled; In arms the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." And I will tell you... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
