 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...  Select Essays and Poems - Page 73by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...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...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...cmlwttlcd fanners 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...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 714 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. 10 The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory... | |
 | Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 558 pages
...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 bridge has swept Down the dark ttream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...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...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1878 - 638 pages
...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...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1878 - 292 pages
...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...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Authors, American - 1879 - 286 pages
...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 bridge has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone j That memory... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Authors, American - 1879 - 340 pages
...On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their dead redeem, When like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made these heroes dare To die and leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - English poetry - 1880 - 408 pages
...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...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory nay their deed redeem, When like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
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