You know the rest. In the books you have read How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball. From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the redcoats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again... Tales of a Wayside Inn - Page 25by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 225 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fen* and farmyard-wall, Chasiug the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields...turn of the road. And only pausing to fire and load. 14 So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard-wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the tum of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. 14 So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 254 pages
...fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, / , / / Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. Sfc- through the night rode Paul Eevere ; And so through the night went his. cry of alarm To every... | |
| 1864 - 568 pages
...dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball. The rest of the story we all know. The poem concludes thus : So through the night rode Paul Revere : And so through...Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance arid not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pages
...fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. 14. So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every... | |
| John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...fired and fled,— How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard-wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere; To every Middlesex village and farm,— A cry of defiance, and not of fear,— A voice in the darkness,... | |
| John Swett - 1867 - 252 pages
...— How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard-wall, Chasing tne red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields...fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere ; To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance, and not of fear, — A voice in the darkness,... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. 14. So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 pages
...fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees rt the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. So through the night rode Taul Revere ;... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 pages
...fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of four, — A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore ! For,... | |
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