 | Virginia B. Troeger, Robert James McEwen - 2002 - 164 pages
...Proprietary House in Perth Amboy in 1 776. (Peggie Roscoc) 5. THE REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION By the ruck' bridge that arched the flood, / Their flag to April's...unfurled, / Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (from Concord Hymn} On Wednesday, April... | |
 | Jacqueline Glasthal - 2003 - 76 pages
...the wounded men who fell into their hands. * F I Name Date. Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; f That memory may their deed redeem, jf When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, JULY 4, 1837 By the rude bridge that arched the flood,1 Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the...this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive2 stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit,... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...centennial celebration of Emerson's birth should have ended with a communal singing of the hymn. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. THE MAKING OF A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL SJ On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - 2002 - 420 pages
...gunpowder. He had not reckoned on the resourcefulness of a small band of swift riders. American Echo "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." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hymn Sung at the Completion of the... | |
 | Herb Galewitz - 2003 - 68 pages
...the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. 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. When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...LONGFELLOW AMERICAN (1807-1882) Concord Hymn Sung at the completion of the Battle Monument, 4 July 1837 By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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... | |
 | John Hollander - 2004 - 64 pages
...as a philosophical essayist, but his poetry is among the strongest in nineteenth century America. By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to...a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made these heroes dare To die, and leave their... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 pages
...Waldo Emerson, 85 philosopher, poet and essayist dedicated the monument with "The Concord Hymn:" "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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, or leave their... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 pages
...teapot he made himself. Sixty-two years later, the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about that moment. 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. When the smoke cleared, eight American farmers lay dead. It was... | |
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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... 
