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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518849" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Battle of Lexington</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now haste thee while the way is clear, <br>Paul Revere! <br>Haste, Dawes! but haste thee not, O Sun! <br>To Lexington. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Then Devens looked and saw the light: <br>He got him forth into the night, <br>And watched alone on the river-shore, <br>And marked the British ferrying o'er. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>John Parker! rub thine eyes and yawn: <br>But one o'clock and yet 'tis Dawn! <br>Quick, rub thine eyes and draw thy hose: <br>The Morning comes ere darkness goes, <br>Have forth and call the yeomen out, <br>For somewhere, somewhere close about <br>Full soon a Thing must come to be <br>Thine honest eyes shall stare to see <br>Full soon before thy patriot eyes <br>Freedom from out of a Wound shall rise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Then haste ye, Prescott and Revere! <br>Bring all the men of Lincoln here; <br>Let Chelmsford, Littleton, Carlisle, <br>Let Acton, Bedford, hither file - <br>Oh hither file, and plainly see <br>Out of a wound leap Liberty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Say, Woodman April! all in green, <br>Say, Robin April! hast thou seen <br>In all thy travel round the earth <br>Ever a morn of calmer birth? <br>But Morning's eye alone serene <br>Can gaze across yon village-green <br>To where the trooping British run <br>Through Lexington. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Good men in fustian, stand ye still; <br>The men in red come o'er the hill. <br>Lay down your arms, damned Rebels! cry <br>The men in red full haughtily. <br>But never a grounding gun is heard; <br>The men in fustian stand unstirred; <br>Dead calm, save maybe a wise bluebird <br>Puts in his little heavenly word. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O men in red! if ye but knew <br>The half as much as bluebirds do, <br>Now in this little tender calm <br>Each hand would out, and every palm <br>With patriot palm strike brotherhood's stroke <br>Or ere these lines of battle broke. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O men in red! if ye but knew <br>The least of the all that bluebirds do, <br>Now in this little godly calm <br>Yon voice might sing the Future's Psalm- <br>The Psalm of Love with the brotherly eyes <br>Who pardons and is very wise- <br>Yon voice that shouts, high-hoarse with ire, <br>Fire! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The redcoats fire, the homespuns fall: <br>The homespuns' anxious voices call, <br>Brother, art hurt? and Where hit, John? <br>And, Wipe this blood, and Men, come on, <br>And Neighbor, do but lift my head, <br>And Who is wounded? Who is dead? <br>Seven are killed. My God! my God! <br>Seven lie dead on the village sod. <br>Two Harringtons, Parker, Hadley, Brown, <br>Munroe and Porter,-these are down. <br>Nay, look! stout Harrington not yet dead! <br>He crooks his elbow, lifts his head. <br>He lies at the step of his own house-door; <br>He crawls and makes a path of gore. <br>The wife from the window hath seen, and rushed; <br>He hath reached the step, but the glood hath gushed; <br>He hath crawled to the step of his own house-door, <br>But his head hath dropped: he will crawl no more. <br>Clasp, Wife, and kiss, and lift the head: <br>Harrington lies at his door-step dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But, O ye Six that round him lay <br>And bloodied up that April day! <br>As Harrington fell, ye likewise fell- <br>At the door of the House wherein ye dwell; <br>As Harrington came, ye likewise came <br>And died at the door of your House of Fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidney+Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a><div class=q>
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Paul Revere! 
Haste, Dawes! but haste thee not, O Sun! 
To Lexington. 


Then Devens looked and saw the light: 
He got him forth into the night, 
And watched alone on the river-shore, 
And marked the British..."></div>
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