. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . walked Paul he patted his horses gazed at the landscape far and near,Then, impetuous, stamped the turned and tightened his saddle-girth;But mostly he watched with eager searchThe belfry-tower of the Old North Church,As it rose above the graves on the hillLonely and spectral and sombre and lo! as he looks, on the belfrys heightA glimmer, and then a gleam of ligVit!He springs to the saddle, the bridle he lingers and gazes, till full on his sight,A second lamp in the belfry
. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . walked Paul he patted his horses gazed at the landscape far and near,Then, impetuous, stamped the turned and tightened his saddle-girth;But mostly he watched with eager searchThe belfry-tower of the Old North Church,As it rose above the graves on the hillLonely and spectral and sombre and lo! as he looks, on the belfrys heightA glimmer, and then a gleam of ligVit!He springs to the saddle, the bridle he lingers and gazes, till full on his sight,A second lamp in the belfry burns ! A hurry of hoofs in a village street,A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a sparkStruck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet:That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,The fate of a nation was riding that night;And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flightKindled the land into fame with its heat. It was one by the village clockWhen he galloped into saw the gilded weathercock. THE CLARKE-HANCOCK HOUSE, LEXINGTON 227 Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. So through the night rode Paul Revere;And so through the night went his cry of alarmTo every Middlesex village and farm,—A cry of defiance and not of fear,A voice in the darkness, a knock at the a word that shall echo forevermore!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 hearThe hurrying hoof-beats of that steedAnd the midnight message of Paul Revere. Closely associated with this ride is the old house knownas the Clarke-Hancock House and now owned by theLexington Historical Society. On the night of PaulReveres ride, two of the leaders of the American causewere
Size: 1384px × 1806px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjecthistori, bookyear1906
