Concord Hymn
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leading American lecturer, poet and essayist. Works include two volumes of essays (1841 and 1844), poems (1847) and numerous individual pieces including the famous essays Nature (1836) showing the natural world with its function to excite the intuition, The American Scholar (1837), Self Reliance (1844) which challenges readers to seek their own truths and the poem Terminus (1866). Emerson was a leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism and Romanticism and a strong influence on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson.
Concord Hymn
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Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19th, 1836 By the rude bridge that arched the flood, The foe long since in silence slept; On this green bank, by this soft stream, Spirit, that made those heroes dare |