Archived Q Post 3987 The lantern signal-"such a clever, practical little device" (GreatAwakening)
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Archived Q Post 3987 The lantern signal-"such a clever, practical little device" (GreatAwakening)
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[–] nycpats 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
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.
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”