<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font face="Verdana">So through the night rode Paul
Revere;=<br>
And so through the night went his cry of alarm<br>
To every Middlesex village and farm,---<br>
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,<br>
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,<br>
And a word that shall echo for evermore!<br>
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,<br>
Through all our history, to the last,<br>
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,<br>
The people will waken and listen to hear<br>
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,<br>
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Longfellow wrote this on April 19, 1860, with forebodings of a Civil War?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Revere's ride is said to be on April 18, 1775.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font><div><div>On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:19 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> A hurry of hoofs in a village street,<br> A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,<br> And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark<br> Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;<br> That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,<br> The fate of a nation was riding that night;<br> And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,<br> Kindled the land into flame with its heat.<br> He has left the village and mounted the steep,<br> And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,<br> Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;<br> And under the alders that skirt its edge,<br> Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,<br> Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides...<br><br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br />--
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