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Saturday, October 24, 2009

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Listen my children and you shall hear
of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
and a word that shall echo for evermore !
For, borne on the night-wind of the past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.

Remember the "SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY"

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

SHHHH don't let Obama and his Hench men hear you say something patriotic !

Anonymous said...

I expect that they will tell us it was a mistake to rebel against England. Part of the vast right wing conspiracy.

Anonymous said...

I've been thinking of the same poem for months now , that's a little scarey. Wow, me thinks a rebellion is at hand.Lock and load!

Anonymous said...

interesting fact: a descendant of HW Longfellow lives right here in Salisbury & works for a law firm downtown. One Plaza East building. I think the firm is called Adkins , Potter & something else...

Anonymous said...

I love a good longfellow