The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ycioflry: Afori^itn 6^ Headley. memorable ride of the i8th of April, 1775, called from the fields and the plow,shouting to them as he went galloping past, The British are coming! In afew hours, over a hundred men of the train-band —as it was sometimes called—were collected together, and the next morning, under gallant Captain John Parker,the litde band stood drawn up in the streets of Lexington determined to fight I8 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1S76. for those liberties which were dearer to them than hfe. Every schoolbo
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ycioflry: Afori^itn 6^ Headley. memorable ride of the i8th of April, 1775, called from the fields and the plow,shouting to them as he went galloping past, The British are coming! In afew hours, over a hundred men of the train-band —as it was sometimes called—were collected together, and the next morning, under gallant Captain John Parker,the litde band stood drawn up in the streets of Lexington determined to fight I8 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1S76. for those liberties which were dearer to them than hfe. Every schoolboy isfamiliar with the events of that day—the famous 19th of April—and the part. Carl Cimrais. Sc. xhe Miitutc Man : New England Granite Co. played by the famous Minute-Men afterwards. But we can appropriately intro-duce here those charming verses delivered by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the INDUSTRIAL ART. 19 unveiling of the statue last year on the one-hundredth anniversary of the famousbattle:— By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to Aprils 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 creeps. On the 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,Rid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. The statue itself needs but little description. The reader can see for him-self ho
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