 | Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - 1898 - 122 pages
...hoofs. Now soft on the sand, Now loud on the ledges, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. " It was twelve by the village clock When he crossed...of the cock, And the barking of the farmer's dog." The people waken and listen to hear the hurrying hoof-beats. " Up ! Up ! and arm !" he cries, as he... | |
 | 1920 - 244 pages
...Medford's public clocks, a gift to the town by Hon. Peter Chardon Brooks. We read in " Paul Revere's Ride " It was twelve by the village clock When he crossed the bridge into Medford town Doubtless the hour was right, but Mr. Longfellow was thirty-five years ahead of time, by poetic license.... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1899 - 310 pages
...its edge, Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. It was twelve by the village clock When he crossed...heard the crowing of the cock, And the barking of the fanner's dog, And felt the damp of the river fog, That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 pages
...edge, Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. [t was twelve by the village clock When he crossed the...heard the crowing of the cock, And the barking of the farmer'- dog, And felt the damp of the river fog, That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 924 pages
...deep, edge. Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. It was twelve by the village clock. When he crossed...the farmer's dog. And felt the damp of the river fog 91 That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock. When he galloped into Lexington.... | |
 | 1903 - 672 pages
...flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. It was twelve by the village clock, When he cross'd the bridge into Medford town, He heard the crowing...barking of the farmer's dog, And felt the damp of the river-fog, That rises when the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock, When he rode into Lexington.... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 pages
...night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. It was twelve by the village clock When he crossed the bridge into Medford town. And the bivrkiug of the farmer's dog, And felt the damp of the river fog, That rises after the sun... | |
 | S. D. Waterman, J. W. McClymonds, C. C. Hughes - 1903 - 200 pages
...the cock, And the barking of the farmer's dog, And felt the damp of the river fog, That rises when the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock, When he rode into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house... | |
 | 1904 - 554 pages
...Printing 193 PRIMARY EDUCATION April, 1904 headlong into a clay pit. rode safely on. Paul Revere 1 8 "It was twelve by the village clock When he crossed the bridge into Medford town." vV 19 The sound of his horse's hoofs rang clear and sharp through the night. Somewhere a dog barked.... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 pages
...its edge, Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. It was twelve by the village clock, When he crossed the bridge into Medford town. lie heard the crowing of the cock. And the barking of the farmer's dog, And felt the damp of the river... | |
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That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As... 
