 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 Sixth Reader - Page 101by Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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...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. Bid Time and Nature gently... | |
 | Amy L. Cohn - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1993 - 434 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...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...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 John Bennett - American letters - 1997 - 440 pages
...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...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 David Thoreau - Travel - 1998 - 372 pages
...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...bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps."3 Our reflections had already acquired a historical remoteness from the scenes we had left,... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 500 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Brian O'Connell, John William Gardner - Political Science - 1999 - 180 pages
...Emerson's poem for the dedication of the monument to the Minutemen who took their stand at Concord Bridge. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror...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... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - History - 2000 - 426 pages
...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...conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has wept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream. We set to-day... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...surprised at the quiet stanzas that follow, which emphasize not man's defiance but time's victory: The foe long since in silence slept, Alike the conqueror silent sleeps, And time the ruined bridge hath swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. The Battle Monument offers a momentary stay against... | |
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