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.
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.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Hymn sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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