[Peace-discuss] Eighteenth of April

[Morton K. Brussel]

So through the night rode Paul Revere;=
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,---
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.

Longfellow wrote this on April 19, 1860, with forebodings of a Civil War?
Revere's ride is said to be on April 18, 1775.


On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:19 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

>    A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
> A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
> And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
> Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;
> That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
> The fate of a nation was riding that night;
> And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
> Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
> He has left the village and mounted the steep,
> And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
> Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
> And under the alders that skirt its edge,
> Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
> Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides...
> 
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