Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548
shaft erected to the memory of the patriots, anddedicated in 1836—for which Emerson wrote hisbeautiful hymn, beginning: By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. And at the opposite… … THE OLD MANSE. They lingered long beside the mossy stream,their thoughts filled with the memory and mean-ing of that uprising of the embattled farmersso eloquently pictured in Emersons ringing lines.As Mr. Ward told them, the poets own grand-father had been a leader of the minute-men,and though…
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