 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1903 - 1098 pages
...to be determined wholly by principles derived from sources outside of the subject-matter itself. " It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town." "This," says pedagogy to the child, "is history." "But," protests some big, dull book, "he was stopped... | |
 | 1905 - 252 pages
...with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. 100 It was two by the village clock, When he came to the...the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze 105 Blowing over the meadows brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed Who at the bridge would... | |
 | 1905 - 222 pages
...him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock, When he came to the...heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of the birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown.... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 738 pages
...with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. ,oa It was two by the village clock, When he came to the...heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of bids among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown. And... | |
 | Charles Ferris Gettemy - 1905 - 364 pages
...then the ride out through the villages and farms of Middlesex until, in the lines of the poet, — It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town. It may seem a pity to mar this work of art by the homely daubs of fact ; yet a faithful limning of... | |
 | 1905 - 608 pages
...The child gathered shells and pebbles along the seashore. 59. Lifeless but beautiful he lay. 60. We heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees. 61. The day is cold and dark and dreary. XIII. CORRECTION. Several sentences are written as one. War... | |
 | 1902 - 438 pages
...him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock, When he came to the...that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket ball. You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled,—... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Jennie Freeborn Owens - 1906 - 504 pages
...with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. i5 It was two by the village clock, When he came to the...the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze 20 Blowing over the meadows brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed Who at the bridge would be... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - 1906 - 106 pages
...they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock, 10 When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard...the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadow brown. i5 And one was safe and asleep in his bed Who at the bridge would be first to fall, Who... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 116 pages
...with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the blooey work they would look upon. It wat two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge...be first to fall, Who that day would be lying dead, You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the... | |
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It was one by the village clock When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the... 
