One If By Land

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;

Hardly a man is now alive

Who remembers that famous day and year.

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Comments

[Bill Turnier]

Anybody interested in reading a good history of the ride should get their hands on Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer.