 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
 | Julian Hawthorne - American literature - 1891 - 376 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 546 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1898 - 40 pages
...And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conquerer silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept,...bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
 | John Wesley Freese - Buildings - 1897 - 170 pages
...April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone That memory may the deed redeem When, like our sires, our sons are gone. EMERSON. 54 THE MINUTE-MAN.... | |
 | William Sinclair Lord - American poetry - 1899 - 70 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... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - American literature - 1899 - 440 pages
...embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; 5 Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined...by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; to That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 278 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! who made those freemen... | |
 | Katharine Hamer Shute - 1899 - 248 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 Sinclair Lord - American poetry - 1899 - 64 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...this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day i. votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit,... | |
 | Brander Matthews - American poetry - 1899 - 310 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our...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.... | |
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