 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 Seiten
...architecture of the snow. HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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 stream which... | |
 | 1853 - 504 Seiten
...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...Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft strewn, We see to-day a votive stone, That... | |
 | 1853 - 516 Seiten
...nrehed the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here onee the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world "The foe long...Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream that scawnnl creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft stream, We sec to-day a votive stone, That... | |
 | 1879 - 592 Seiten
...Concord, and the grandson of the pastor of the village who was present at the time of the conflict : By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The other scene is Mount Vernon, the unadorned yet spacious wooden mansion where Washington spent his latest... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 430 Seiten
...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...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. u The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1874 - 560 Seiten
...tablet tells us the newly springing sod was fertilized by the life-blood of the first slain foeman. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...stood And fired the shot heard round the world." The ground upon which the monument stands was given to the town by Dr. Kipley in 1834, for the purpose,... | |
 | 1879 - 624 Seiten
...who was present at the time of the conflict : By the rude bridge that arched the Hum). Their fliuf to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The other scene is Mount Vernon, the unadorned yet spacious wooden mansion where Washington spent his latest... | |
 | Lexington (Mass.) - 1875 - 198 Seiten
...farmers, as a class, may never be less patriotic than on that "glorious morning " when, — "Their flags to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." The President. — Lexington is proud to share the honors of the iQth of April with the goodly array of... | |
 | 1876 - 558 Seiten
...the unveiling of the statue last year on the one-hundredth anniversary of the famous battle : — By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...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 ;... | |
 | Concord (Mass.), Concord (Mass ). - 1876 - 182 Seiten
...hammered, across the middle of which, in incised and bronzed letters, are these lines of Emerson : — BY THE RUDE BRIDGE THAT ARCHED THE FLOOD THEIR FLAG TO...STOOD AND FIRED THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. The rear face is similar to the front, and on the panel In high relief the inscription : — 1775 NINETEENTH... | |
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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... 
