. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. fiverods east of the monument and near the Bedford road. At thefirst alarm the minute-men assembled between the tavern andthe meeting-house. Lexington Common, as we see it to-day, bears little resem-blance to the green where thefirst death-volley rattled in is a triangular enclosure,bordered by a double row ofelms, some of large growth, oth-ers of more recent planting. Afence, composed of stone postswith wooden rails, separates theground from the highways whichpass on either side. The battle-monument standsnear the ^\^est corner of the en
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. fiverods east of the monument and near the Bedford road. At thefirst alarm the minute-men assembled between the tavern andthe meeting-house. Lexington Common, as we see it to-day, bears little resem-blance to the green where thefirst death-volley rattled in is a triangular enclosure,bordered by a double row ofelms, some of large growth, oth-ers of more recent planting. Afence, composed of stone postswith wooden rails, separates theground from the highways whichpass on either side. The battle-monument standsnear the ^\^est corner of the enclo-sure, not far from the groundwhere the first victims werestretched in their blood, and at adozen paces from the south is placed on a little knoll, is surrounded by an iron fence,and has the front with the inscription facing south. It is enoughto say of this monument, that its insignificant appearance, whencompared with the object it is intended to perpetuate, can arouseno other than a feeling of disappointment in the mind of the. LEXINGTON MONUMENT. LECHMERES POINT TO LEXINGTON. obd pilgrim. The shaft is of granite, with a marble tablet bearingthe following inscription, ^vritten by Rev. Jonas Clark of Lex-ington. Lafayette and Kossuth have both read it. Sacred to the Liberty and the Rights of Mankind ! ! ! TheFreedom and Independence of America — Sealed and defendedwith the blood of her sons — This Monument is erected by the In-habitants of Lexington, under the patronage and at the expense ofthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to the memory of their Fel-low-citizens, Ensign Robert Monroe, Messrs. Jonas Parker, SamuelHadley, Jonathan Harrington, Junr., Isaac Muzzy, Caleb Harring-ton and John Brown, of Lexington, and Asahel Porter, of Woburn,who fell on this Field, the first victims of the Sword of British Tyr-anny and Oppression, on the morning of the ever-memorable Nine-teenth of April, An. Dom. 1775. The Die was Cast! ! ! The bloodof these Martyrs in the cause o
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