 | 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 - Elocution - 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 - Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775 - 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 - Readers - 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 - Sermons - 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 - Sermons - 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... | |
 | 1919 - 1278 pages
...the young farmer who fired the first shot in the War of Revolution inscribed with these lines: "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." i9th April, 1775. We also read on the battle field of Concord... | |
 | Arabella Burton Buckley - Great Britain - 1887 - 466 pages
...monument, erected in 1836 on the scene of this skirmish, stands engraved the first verse of Emerson's Concord Hymn — "By the rude bridge that arched the...flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; Here ouce the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." For the next eight years... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 236 pages
...Emerson, destined, like the shot he celebrates, to be " heard round the world "— - * * . ./ " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot hear4 round the world. 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. 
