 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; 6 Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, April 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...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 bridge has... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...found. HYMN. SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, APKIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...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 bridge has... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...pleasing, and we are glad to find one extract which we can praise. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...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 bridge has... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...THE COMPLETION OF THE MONUMENT AT CONCORD, APRIL, 1836. BY BW EMERSON. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...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 bridge has... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 504 pages
...Emerson wrote the following hymn for the ceremony : APRIL 19, 1836. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...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 bridge has... | |
 | James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
...•1^HI\v/)9f•^ '.'.-** )ln '2X0 WfiSfl® teW* 1 ' HARPER'S FERR\ r " By the rude Bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers Hood, And fired the mot heard round the World." RW EMERSON. JAMES REDPATH. BOSTON: THAYER AND ELDRIDGE,... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...503, 531.) 285. HYMN SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...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 bridge has... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 592 pages
...pastor of the village who was present at the time of the conflict : By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,...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 - Concord River - 1873 - 430 pages
...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 farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. u The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent... | |
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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... 
