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...physical resistance was made to the soldiers of George III. by his revolutionary colonies — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Where once the embattled fiirmera stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." But within these...

...erected in later times, representing one of the simple American peasants with one hand on the plough and the other on the musket, and underneath are written...the conflict : By the rude bridge that arched the Hum). Their fliuf to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the...

...shore. WILLIAM CULLEN BRVANT. HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, APRIL. 19. 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the cmlwttlcd fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept...

...shore. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, APRIL. 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here oucc the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence...

...erected in later times, representing one of the simple American peasants with one hand on the plough and the other on the musket, and underneath are written...time of the conflict:— " By the rude bridge that aicbcd the flood, Their Hag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And...

...shore. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. HYMN : SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT. APRIL 19, 1836. BY e '11 set thee, Embalmed in the innermost shrine of...her heart. Farewell ! — be it ours to embellish fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike...

...said a better word for our earliest battleground than this immortal verse t — " By the rude hridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." Or the 4th of July Ode read at Concord in...

...ours. We do not grudge you your Marathon of Bunker Hill, and we can repeat as proudly as you— " By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurled; In arms the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." And I will tell you...