 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 - 1883 - 338 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 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... | |
 | Delia Wood Lyman - Chronology - 1883 - 754 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 which seaward creepi. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 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 which seaward creepSo On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.2 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,3 When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1887 - 168 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... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 514 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 230 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 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 sous are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
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