 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...  Annual Report ... - Page 249by Illinois Farmers' Institute - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 pages
...the stone on our right, it "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 fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. " The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 472 pages
...be, etc., GW THE CONCORD HYMN. (Sung at the complrtion of the Concord J/on«ment, April 19, 1836.) By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze uiifurlcd, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Granville Bradley - 1894 - 636 pages
...universities ; in the green meadows close to the village of Concord, with Emerson at his side — By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world ; he realised the beginnings of the War of Independence. On his way to Newport he ' passed into a new StateRhode... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 310 pages
...event. When it was erected Emerson wrote the following hymn for the ceremony : 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. " The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - 1893 - 248 pages
...in the North Countree But is lord of the earldom as much as he. 3. HYMN ON THE FIGHT AT CONCORD. 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. The foe long since in silence slept, Alike the conqueror silent... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1894 - 446 pages
...advanced to Concord Bridge, and in the skirmish here the Americans returned the British fire. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Hero once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." * * From RW Emerson's... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Tim Smith - 2002 - 100 pages
...avail as it turned out. This essay was first read to the people of Concord on October 30, 1859. 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 From the "Concord Hymn" The Old North... | |
 | Judith Peacock - 2002 - 52 pages
...Concord (shown here) helped to pull the 13 colonies closer together. "The Shot 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 heard round the world. These words from "The Concord Hymn" by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 pages
...to Frost and Stevens. Concord 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. The foe long since in silence slept, Alike the Conqueror silent... | |
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