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... The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks - Page 388by Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1915 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; 6 Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 10 That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. FORBEARANCE. HAST thou named all the birds without a gun ? Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept, Alike the Conqueror silent sleeps, And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark...redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept, Alike the Conqueror silent sleeps, And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark...a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, \Vhen like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit ! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their... | |
| Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. BOSTON HYMN. READ IN Music HALL, JANUARY 1, •1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. BOSTON HYMN. READ IN Music HALL, JANUABY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims... | |
| Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 558 pages
...silent sleeps; And time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark ttream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. The statue itself needs but little description. The reader can see for himself how admirably the artist... | |
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