 | 1894 - 782 pages
...soldiers of Pitcairn met the first solid armed resistance which the colonists offered to the King. "By the rude bridge that arched the flood. Their flag to April's breeze uufurled. Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." On the... | |
 | United States - 1894 - 678 pages
...Old North Bridge of the battle. Upon the granite base of the monument are cut the lines of Emerson's hymn: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1895 - 546 pages
...before he had written the hymn sung at the completion of the monument commemorating Concord fight ; 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. '895. ] 2O: This is one of the best, and one of the best known,... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1895 - 220 pages
...find here many objects of historical and literary interest. Concord is revered, not only because " 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," but because here lived Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1895 - 316 pages
...brought me there brought you. HYMN. [Sung at the completion of the Concord Monument, April 19,1836.] 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. *On being asked, Whence is the flower? The foe long since in... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 676 pages
..."The Provincials headed by Colonel Robinson and Major Buttrick." " By this rude bridge which spans the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shots heard round the world." Plate IV shows the end of the battle. Colonel Smith, finding... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 850 pages
...Because our people resisted the British called them rebels. (a.) By the rude bridge that arched the nood. Their flag to April's breeze unfurled. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. — Emerion. •' Slowly the mist o'er the meadow was creeping.... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 770 pages
...firing the first aggressive shot that pealed out the knell of British ascendency in the New World. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot first heard round the world." The subjoined sketch, copied from the Boston Transcript... | |
 | Sons of the American Revolution. Kentucky Society - 1896 - 312 pages
...or any other country, and it is graced by an inscription of those stirring lines by Emerson : " 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." But that great event has a nobler monument still — the beautiful... | |
 | Ernest Arthur Jelf - Children's stories, English - 1896 - 452 pages
...think upon these things, as the Magic Train passed upon its way. CHAPTER X. THE EMBATTLED FARMERS. "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." —EMERSON. WHEN they came to the station which was called "... | |
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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. 
