Concord Hymn

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Title:     Concord Hymn
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Titles by Emerson]

Sung at the completion of The Battle Monument,

April 19, 1836

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 bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creep.

On this green bank, 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 heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.

-THE END-
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem: Concord Hymn

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