
Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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<p>Dr. Eliot says of the opening stanza of the "Concord Hymn": "In twenty-eight words here are the whole scene and all the essential circumstances... what an accurate, moving, immortal description is this!" (Volume 42, Harvard Classics)</p> <p>Battle of Concord fought April 19, 1775.</p> <p> </p>