<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538029" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Seventy-Six</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What heroes from the woodland sprung,<br>When, through the fresh awakened land,<br>The thrilling cry of freedom rung,<br>And to the work of warfare strung<br>The yeoman's iron hand!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hills flung the cry to hills around,<br>And ocean-mart replied to mart,<br>And streams whose springs were yet unfound,<br>Pealed far away the startling sound<br>Into the forest's heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then marched the brave from rocky steep,<br>From mountain river swift and cold;<br>The borders of the stormy deep,<br>The vales where gathered waters sleep,<br>Sent up the strong and bold,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if the very earth again<br>Grew quick with God's creating breath,<br>And, from the sods of grove and glen,<br>Rose ranks of lion-hearted men<br>To battle to the death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wife, whose babe first smiled that day,<br>The fair fond bride of yestereve,<br>And aged sire and matron gray,<br>Saw the loved warriors haste away,<br>And deemed it sin to grieve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Already had the strife begun;<br>Already blood on Concord's plain<br>Along the springing grass had run,<br>And blood had flowed at Lexington,<br>Like brooks of April rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That death-stain on the vernal sward<br>Hallowed to freedom all the shore;<br>In fragments fell the yoke abhorred--<br>The footstep of a foreign lord<br>Profaned the soil no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538029" data-title="Seventy-Six de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="What heroes from the woodland sprung, When, through the fresh awakened land, The thrilling cry of freedom rung, And to the work of warfare strung The yeoman's iron hand! Hills flung the cry to hills around, And ocean-mart replied to mart, And str..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black