...firing the first aggressive shot that pealed out the knell of British ascendency in the New World. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot first heard round the world." The subjoined sketch, copied from the Boston Transcript...

...history is perhaps the 19 April, 1775, when, near the village of Concord, Massachusetts, " By that rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled f2rmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world." — EMERsON. The British regulars had fired...

...conceit When man in the bush with God may meet ? GOOD-BYE. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, ^ V Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. CONCORD HYMN. WHAT care though rival cities soar Along the stormy...

...sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble. ?i. DRYDEN — Alexander's Feast, L. 99. By unfurl'd ; Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. o. EMERSON...

...the brave-eyed young Minute-man — one hand on his plow, the other grasping the ready musket : " 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." ' m > m ! i >.ES".S THE OLD MANSE. Made famous by Hawthorne....

...he composed the " Concord Hymn," which was sung at the completion of the battle monument : — " 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." and Coleridge. In 1836, as a result of these studies, he published...

...Jessie I. Meloy, Secretary; Miss Bertha Barrett, Leader. BAY VIEW MAGAZINE. THE COLUMBIAN NOTE-BOOK. By the rude bridge that arched the flood ; Their flag...unfurled. Here once the embattled farmers stood. And flred the shot heard round the world. — Emermn. CASTLE Garden, that historic and prisonlike old structure...

...American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson : " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to the April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers...stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." THE NEW ENGLAND STATES DURING THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE 8e.hrfi 100 Milt. 24. The Second Continental Congress....

...Buttle Monument, July 4, 1837, incised in the panel on the front face of the pedestal : — By Ihe rnde bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's...unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the uhot hoard round the world. On the roar face are simply the dutos: " 1770. Nineteenth of...

...puts before us the natural and spiritual scene at the Concord River on the 19th of April, 1775: " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." In twenty-eight words here are...