...the young farmer who fired the first shot in the War of Revolution inscribed with these lines: "By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to...unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world." i9th April, 1775. We also read on the battle field of Concord...

...God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. EMEKSON (Voluntaries). 83 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. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent...

...1836 on the scene of this skirmish, stands engraved the first verse of Emerson's Concord Hymn — "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; Here ouce the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." For the next eight years...

...benefit of men. 1878. CONCORD HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. T3Y the rude bridge that arched the flood, -*-' Their...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...

...the pen of Emerson, destined, like the shot he celebrates, to be " heard round the world " — " 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. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent...

...seas I have never felt at home, never wholly been at ease. THE CONCORD HYMN. BY the nul'- bridge tuat 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...

...COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. T3Y the rude bridge that arched the flood, -1— ' 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...

...crossing of the Rubicon was more than the crossing of a river. Concord was more than a skirmish. " 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." The attack upon Sumter was more than the storming of an indeien...

...the American and the Royalist troops in the War of Independence. Emerson himself sings it : — "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, , "Their flag...April's breeze unfurled, "Here once the embattled fanners stood, "And fired the shot heard round the world." In this Concord retirement Emerson has lived...

...adjourned on March a9th, and in three weeks afterwards the battle of Lexington was fought, and '' By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; * * * The embattled farmers stood In June followed the battle of Bunker's Hill, and the season for...