| Show I A t TIMELY LESSOR F IN I AMERICAN PATRIOTISM lis I I The Cefebrafion of Pafriofs Day In MassaclSuseffs I I Flisfonc Concord and lexington J O j 1 I 1 1 Il I IM I I Copyright MI13 I I Thin year la I the fifth since Patriots I I any April 19 was mode a legal 1 holiday In MaBiirhuaotts by the signature of I I a Governor OricnhalEe In 1894 Thai mli7l same year there was an exact reproduction reproduc-tion of Paul Reveres ride and other me pref appropriate exercises especially commemorative thei com-memorative of the engagements at Lexington of I Lex-ington and Concord by the pople all along the route from Charlcstown Ber Ihrtugh Somervllle Medford and Arlington Ar-lington to the rude bridge that arched CX the nool where American farmers and Ila cut onista defied Ilrltalns power In the If Insignia of a relocated uniform DOan DO-an scendants of the Revolutionary patriots read took piomlnent part Hubert W Size of Medford being the modern Paul Revere win and he panned over the exact route of cla his famous predecessor all the detain I I of fact being accurately followed and to depleted i The quaint old town 01 Concord near th nostonTls I not only fimou historically to ut also bound a till romlnlno 01 at 0 time not lias since when llanlhorne oh Emerson Thirrnu and the Alcolti tort to-rt gethcr walked her streets sought her ell woods and elided about her river th friends In heart and mind Thn people ca are railed river norahfiers und with a reason Their Concord river with Ha far hemlock hung banks la n serene Joy m In summer and an exhilarating delight nl to In winter Yea boating and skating Are the principal pursuits tr I These are facilitated because many 1101 01 the houses lave gardeni Sloping to I ol the tivera river to gentle that us 1 tile chronicler hath It the only bridge cc 111 ever carried nway within the limits of the town was driven up stream by tho el J elfl wind tl This dear classic Concord Is l o mite I III I from Boston und within seven miles 01 d that good old Lexington We hon ho-n 1 have properly conned our United States a I history take much pride In Concord a find rlngtn and hold that the names I I 11 arc synonymous with patriotic glory I tj 11 111 5E j I t X o 1 I r i 611X 11 I I a 1t c N N X I Z j I 0 il m I 1 I J 11 m t z 1 IN P A r F i it r t I 11 I t 111f J i f i q I 1 I IN N 11 I 1 Zxq I I N111 I 11 k I I A I I I I aa 11 I I I 1 it 1 a lk i 4 II 1 11 11 c k U I I N X I I Z I 7 I I C I I I III c 1 I L V I 11 1 I T 14 K 1 11 III 1i I I I 11 I N g I 11 d 11 La i I I I I IcAur nrvnnr ll J 11 A Not one of us Americans ought to think t I I I en il 11 without n thrill of the modest cornea t k that there ushered In the Revolution 5 r And so I revert with satisfaction tote a 14 to-te historic events Concord Indian name wan Musk 111 taquld One authority nays this means graa ground another green gron I I river And here to Musketaquld came the first Inland settlement ol the Ma I rarhuictts colony In 1013 after having I taken the rrrcautlon to purchase the I I land from the Indiana Lund could be I I had cheap In those darn Then the 11 I place was called Concord because all I man harmon Here wandered the gentle apostle El I lot to labor with the Indians until they could till the soil like the white man and had made quite u good code I if laws Here on Lake Wntilm came I such personages as lion Peter Bulke Jc > and Simon Illard to assist those q I Praying Indiana In making a sort of HiLle one uC hoe oodlnnncea was tht no Indian shall take an English a n cance Pity It la that all this amity could not liave continued But hlstor rlllors I I lesily states that thcte canto a time not SO years ufttrnard when Concord I became a military Post i her aim being the pursuit and punishment of these pelfsame Indluns that their depreda I Cons upon tile nelghborliif Illagc I I might he avenged As the 7eni a ment on Concord made I I history for herself I She found piomt neutly In II Indian wars notably I King Philips cent a company of mn to Boston to help overthrow Andrus and contributed many men to the French and Indian war Moreover as early as 17C7 she was cvlnrlng hostility to the British government gov-ernment nnd In 1771 she held that can ventlon In which It was resolved to tepntate from nslnnd and Assemble a provlncl1 congress Almost Imllldl I rtly military companies were being lormed In tile town and arm and ammunition am-munition purohnol The first provincial eono cloven ed In Concord In October 177 the Be I and early In J775 Ov er this second con Kress peneral Gage wan keeping watch It adjourned April IS and then he Issued I Is-sued the order Ydr 800 men the flower of et British I troop stationed In I Don i ton In march on Concord and Poise 1 Its 1 provincial stores during the night of I April 18 1775 Joseph Wnrren resident of the sec ond Provincial congrPg un4ttattichalir mnn of tho committee nn Public safety In settle way he loa Apprised 01 this and Concord tn warn of this Invasion by the noer oC the British troop Danes went to Lexington by WIlY 01 noxbury Paul Revere was rowed across the Charles river and took horse for the same destination Itoth were tu arouse every house on the way mt at Lexington and push on to Concord In the main the programme was carried car-ried out Paul Hevcr was n character and our dear Longfellow has sunsp him Into Immortality He was of Huguenot descent de-scent which may account forthe lire In his veins lly turns he was goldsmith gold-smith lieutenant of artillery In the colonial army and copperplate engraver engrav-er uno oC the four hu In America Ameri-ca lie enslaved the plates made tile press and printed the bills of the paper money ordered by the provincial con ffresa of Massachusetts Then that body sent him to Philadelphia to learn powder making anti quickly ho was back setting up a mill Moreover he was actively engaged In a certain busl ness carried on 10 Boston harbor under un-der the auspices of the great tea party that met to commemorate the Passing of the stamp net The business nan that of tea destroyer Strange aa It may seem the lower the tea sank the higher high-er arose the spirits of those engaged In the business Each felt himself rain er fill every Pound that lInlhod beneath be-neath the water each triumphed In the Icnouledge that here wna a business In which the losing meant success Immediately after this corner In tea destruction Paul Itcvere was sent to carry the news to New York and Phil I I rulnl hln Again I ha was sent to these cities to Invoke sympathy and cooperation 1 coop-eration when Britain declared the port of Boston shoult be closed And now he needs must be called In to figure at Lexington and Concord When the Rev Oblation commenced he become lieutenant lieuten-ant colonel In the defense 01 Ifiansachu sells After the war ho was engaged In caWng church belle Paul cannon and built the copper rolling works at Canton Can-ton Maim now conducted by the He vero Copper company So murh for Paul Revere Ana his versatile attain ment tie whore highest attainment was that of American patriot More IJ rItic r i should bo sung In his honor Well we all know how the British triumphed over the 130 mlnutemen of Lexington that so hastily assembled on the Common We all know how the victors advanced on Concord which had hurriedly made ready We all know of that glorious battle on the bridge In which the flower of the British I I I I 11 1 I I I I I I I I I LL = LEXItifiTON 11 1J o I goRCE5 i I I I I li044 1c Vr 140 4 41 1114 0 tl IE1 Wall 511y l to e C2 1 I a V qv Ax I Y V hi YaWl V cQ r a 10 r ill s C I I i 1 7CA15P1P41X I 9 I r 4 11 R 13 X I 1 I I L05ro y t 416 o RZ10Q 1 51 I MAP or PAUL REVERE RIDB order nnd then no anticipated General Cairo that the flower of the III Utah troops quickly I lost I Its bloom In the bltlne climate of classic ConcordAt Concord-At 10 oclock that night General Gage Issued the order that all Americans should be prevented from leaving Days ton lifter that time Hut he was lust a little bit too late Only live minute before be-fore had Warren dispatched Paul nero n-ero and William Danes to Lexington I troop to unexpectedly and speedily lost Its bloom Concord hus commemorated Its vIctory vIc-tory by two monuments One of plain I granite stands on the spot here the British fought und given I n brief account ac-count ot tile engagement thus Itere On the IDth at April 1T73 1 1i i Was made the first forcible resistance to British nrlon On the oppoalte bank stood the America mllltl > I lore stood the m arary And an this t the firlit adaalyl to nobly fell In I he Uar of the Involution Which gave Indtprndenco to hose Unites Stoll Unite-s rn illtude lo Cod end In the love 01 Irlom This Monument WAS erected A D IN The other monument stands on the side where the Americans fought It Is a bronco statue of the mlnutemnn The figure Is that of a handsome Young man 01 heroic size He med n three c m-ed hat hIs shirt sleeves are rolled roll-ed up n owdrborn is I slung over big left shoulder his right hand grasps an old flintlock musket while the left still holds the handle I AA the old fashioned plow over which hangs hIs coat Here Is the young farmer peacefully plowIng plow-Ing yet In readiness for tire first alarm Mr D C French a sculptor1 ot Concord Con-cord designed this statue On Us granIte gran-Ite ho are Inscribed these lines ot ran erg n By the rude brt1g that arched the flood trl1 lIt tda tod Their I nag to April s brmt unfurled Here once the embattled rturnicca stood And fired the bo hr round the world In the words at that chronicler ot Concord Mr W II narttUlt In I not every town that can furnish the no vision the sculi tor and the poet Near by Is I the grave the unknown British soldiers It la I marked by tno stone and Inclosed with posts and chains while over the narrow Area tower tow-er two pines As James Russell Lowell expressed Jt Those mon were hv enough and true To the hired soMler bulldog creca N Y brought t III iern Nlyfn ibi They fought aa suits tiie Eng Ilgh breed They came three thoun1 mn one oleo UTo kop the PIat upon In throne Unheard beyond the on line Their tnglll mother made her moan Come of the old home of Concord look almost I ni they did when the flower flow-er of the British troops came down the road That historically la I the most Interesting In the United Btates For one > the Wright tavern still dispenses hospitality Near by are the old yellow yel-low block dating back to lt0 the row of buildings that served as storehouses for the provincials the house of Mr lIarrett tart of which was a blockhouse block-house In King Philip war the old JII In which the elfish prisoners were confined the Alcott house dating back 10 1140 and the Wheeler house built In 100 and still In possession uf the same family A few rods above the south bridge Is the house that man the Abode ot Captain Cap-tain I Joseph 1I0lI1er H mile Ntrm Hoer Ho-er who concealed those military stores Iso I ere7c so effectually that a detachment of I I British soldiers could not find them I 4 4 14 K LL 1 l 2 o N1 p1 4 11 I I A V 2 IsI I 7 = = af 11 I I 1I I i 7 qk p I Y ew 3I I 1 I I I I 01 4 Z iPr 11 1 I I I P 1 I ai 3 il K STATUE OF P Canaan balls Kern htaped Up In one ot I the traction and k 01 Powder h fallen behln1 I Mm renchea4 tinder the raves I yet the shrewd lad > < ontllved tn Pond I the troop Away empty handed though they had hon so p I I Hunt I nt to do after eeral hI In the search This house tam erectd In ICI and 10 atlll III riftsIon 01 thl fnrlly The house first In Import all 11 1010 lntere I > at ill the Old Mann Tills Ma-nn built hy Itev Wllllim Emerson minister of the Unitarian church In 1TC5 and here he brought his bride the daughter of Rev Daniel IIIIS Doubtless the JudY took no little pride In the knowledge that hero waa the first two storied residence ever built In the town the others never having aimed aim-ed higher than the lean to And to think only n l > ld divided this house from the battleground and that the orchard or-chard at the back extends to the blessed bless-ed Overt Apropos of the Rev Daniel Bliss he is ald to be tIe author oC an epitaph In the Old Hill hurylng ground of Concord Con-cord that Is ronqldered a cuilous sped men of antithesis and h I the most unique of them nil It run thus 11tre 110 1 the body of Joan lack A native of Africa who died Mnrfh 1773 need nlKit sixty jcnrs Though horn t In a Ian I of flax try lie U 0 born frT Though ho IIvNI In a land Of liberty lie livid a rlave 1 Till b > hl bnt thouch stolen labor lie oqulr1 rgc soure IIf > 1aery Whiea It gave him hli fncil ore 7D1th a I t1h7K MI Jmiiirritlon lave hm his IIn11 omanolpo And lulII on utooUng king Though a slave to v lee I Ho pmrttccd those virtues Without which kings are but Hues For generations this ola Marine was I the home of ministers or the elexcenil alit I of ministers all belonging to the I f nb f tfl Emerson family Then Nathaniel 1 Ilaw thorne occupied It after his marriage to Sophia Peabody In 1813 Here he lived hlu reserved life at home only In the woOd and on the Aoobrt ot which he ivrltes 41A more lovely Stream than this for a mile above its junction with file Concord ling never nOd on earth liferth ITO also write 01 his iflld free > life on the Annabel Indulging fantastic opcu lotion held our nil ottaUon boughs with Ellery Channlng or talking 11th Thoreau about pine I trees anti India relics In his hermitage at Walden No need Is I there to Inquire where were written those Mosfes From on Old JIane Hut I will Pay they had their olgln In the same room In hlch Ilalph Waldo rmerson wrote Nature and many oC Ills bt poems From the north window of this room tho wife of I I I 9 X I I I I I I I 45 f ZtA1M4rAJ4n r I W4 a1Z4 elo I I 4w 0AiqNM I 11 I J V 1 Ift 4 1 4 V bil I I r I I I I I I Ill I I I 11 y llol wZ 2 Z = a 5 E I I e r I t Z 1 11 a PC I THE BATTLE QUOUND AT CONCORD the nrltlh com In 15 1Ir In tile large square house shaded by chest nut anti I lines and Adorned by n garden rioting In flowers this most modest and glCle1 writer and doepest thinker ot the age entertained utmost evrY person 01 not that has nr lolled tills untry ror one Iredrlk IIrmr mad n long stay proving herself a brisk old lady mith a mot voluble tongue nr Matllart FUller and the others Inttd In tile success oC The Dial mt for colivers at Ion Thorau was a dolly visitor ever finding encour agemnt from the mIr mind The Alcott wr near neighbors And her Mr I Alcott held life earliest unro tlon rn old Juhn Brown Actually found moments oC rt In this retrt and the courage to air its convictions Uro also the vlllagrs loved to vNn I I I V a 11 1 I I I 0 4 I g Lp I r ft 7Ma 11 C = MA 0 irn K Oi s y4 z R 7 V I A jf I I PAf i I on I 11 1 r 1I E 1 I I aj I i I Igj FLY I 4 A t I 0 1 I i I I 11 t I I WPM I 47Mjf 3 t Olt X I I 1 J Pi it I I I I 11 I J rl o I I I I I I q 9 Ill I 11111 I 1 4 11 I 1 I I 0 1 Ik i 1 10 If i y11 i I 113 I a lw V o J taizt 1 P i A 11 47t2 F OggplVI 14 7 2am I CHRIST CHUnCH BOSTON Rev William Emerson matched the light 01 April 13 and on Its one hun dredth annlxersary her granddaughter Stood at the same place and pointed out to the guests the men 0000 strong marching In procession to commemorate the Concord light Dr Ezra Illj ley succeeded Dr Enter son In the pastorate and married his widow The chronicler states that hew he-w scholarly courtly hospitable manly and public riddled a Is I ell n a delightful conversationalist n kn render 01 human nature n tender father fa-ther and n wise shepherd to his people peo-ple None better appreciated his many noble qualities than tile grandson 01 his wife Ralph Waldo 1mraoll mhay has written fine thing 01 him The study of the Old Mana was a small square room with high wainscot 1 QK I ON A I R I M Z J I qIN Ian i 1 4 4N I i 11 N 4 1 I f A Al I k iI 1 I 14 X A V tei r J I 1 I 11 1 1 I i I 1 r = Z 1 l Ia I 1 i V c W AV I 4o L = I r w UL nDVCne and oaken beams and a huge fireplace where four loot Urko were uorat to burn In thin room thousands of Per moos have bn written anl here according I ac-cording to Hawthorn did the ghost Appear ot winter nlsht always f lift Ing the latch and enterlnc In the form of n ettt of Old wind 1 he scope the wind roPe manifestation afforded In a vhld Im agination Mold but he ot the Ideal I nalth IValdo Ernprstls home man on I nmup ft the historical country road up which I lIere the school children were annually entertained with various games and clanceg Trunrendentallt seer 01 Concord we bow reverently before thy many sided irenlusl Highly Imaginative yet worldly wise I equally at home In the realm ot the Ideal and the domain ot the real thou hot len Imprint un the town 01 thy ancestors that will but be come plainer more Ineffaceable with the march of the cnturl1 In 185J Nathaniel Hawthorne returned return-ed to Concotcl from Lenox and bought Mr Alcotts place The Hillside don d-on the Lexington road about a mile out 01 town It consisted ot 20 ale ot farm and wood land and 0 mon mood ell house whose low celling and heavy beams attested Its antiquity To the house 1Iawthorn made several Achill Uoas and then gave the Place n name ot Ills own The Wayside Although the place was by tho way aide I Mr Bartlett says Hawthorne must iave Intended a symbolism In giving It Its name as In a letter to a friend ho writes fan there ever such n weary delay In obtaining the slightest recognition tram the public am In my 017 r sat down by the wayside of life like a man under enchantment and n shrubbery sprang up around me and the bushes grew to be saplings nnd the saplings became trees until no exit appeared possible through the entangling depths of my obscurity It has been aptly paid 1 that the place la I like Hawthorne aa It Is 1 unobtrusive retiring and provided with mysterious mysteri-ous sheltered retreats further that though the rambling house has n plain domestic air with Its climbing woodbine wood-bine and roses still the dark pines on the lawn and the evergreen trees on the hill Introduce a shadowy presence like that or serious thoughts or a muslnz mind Hawthorne looked out from his windows win-dows upon fertile meadows and low wooded hills The crest of tho ridge at the back of the house was called by Mrs Hawthorne his Mount of Vision Here he used to pace among the tangled tan-gled growth dreaming written and unwritten un-written books and here the Irregular path worn by his constant Parini still remains In spite of the nrohmnt 01 nature Alt this Mount of Vision What talc It could tell It It would not only ot this lineal romancer of America but ul no of those tots the Alcott children In babyhood It Was their playground I Yes its Wile the steep steps they climbed personating little pllgtlm I laden with heavy packs that were castoff I I cast-off only when they had reiched the celestial city located on the border of a small pond on the other tide ot this hill difliculty11 As for that old barn near the eastern end of the Place with Us hoary 200 sears what could It not tell of those famous theatricals that no have all read about In this house Hawlho nroto his Tanglewood Tales for children be fore depnrtlnB for Europe After his return he rrodu1 big volume or rng all sketches entitled Our Old Home and was engaged upon his romance Septimus Fclton when his health obliged him to take that trip from which he was not to return CISCO This Incomplete work ban since been published Its scene Is I laid at The Wayside and the period Is that of the Revolution Tim subject In I a mans search fur Immortality It seems a for mer occupant of The Wayside was In t rooted In tho same subject It wna reserved for Hawthorne to secure him earthly Immortality though of a different differ-ent kind from that he had desired Instead In-stead of living In the flesh always he tns put In a book hy an Immortal The Wayside passed Into the hands oC Hanthornea sonlnlan George Par ana Lnthrop In 1S79 In lsS3 he sold It lo Daniel Lnthrop the Boston pub n lu t I nr r Aho uses It tin his summer rest dcne e He ban not altered the wounds but has kept them In perfect older Kv icllcof Hawthorne la carefully pro lat nll rrh I ved even to the Inkstand that he uEd In writing the Marble Fault I Henry D Thoreau hermit poet lecturer lec-turer philosopher and worshiper of no evvas born In Concotd In 1817 and graduated from Harvard In 1S37 Hav Ing Ito inclination toward n profession hf learned to manufacture lead pencils when lie had mad one that ias nn Imlrovemnt on those then In use he decided never to make another giving as reason Why I should 17 I would not do again what I have done one And Immediately he betook him tn the study ot nature In order to follow this nw pursuit the more effectually he built his homo In ancient Walden And lived there alone for over two years In this Walden Emerson could walk through miles ot his own moods lIre was n deer wellllk Pool a mile And a half In circumference encircled by high hill < lensely eoverod Ith pin an I < I l oak On an emlnne to tile nurth Thoreau built himself a house whose cot was about 130 It was a atherproof ruom 10 by IS feet with garret i closet door and window two trapdoors > In the floor nnd n brick chimney nt the end Tills was In 1813 and here he remained remain-ed continuously from July until the following lowing May living at an expense or about In month He relied principal Iy upon his bean crop for the Film ne essary to supply his want and devoted very spare moment to study and writ Inll Ills philosophy alme1 to prove the rally 01 living luxuriously and for 2clety Rather than take the lime to raise money for making Ills journeys lie traveled on foot and eventually took I I 1 11 I 1111 J1 1 ll r i itW 1 V41 o 4 I I F to n I IN I IIftl Al tir l iAlic 1 e V I I VI I I I ZI 111 I 0 li I I 11 I N 1 1 ki I 1 I I I c I I J I GENERAL PITCAIRN In moot 01 Nw England Ills familiar haunts were the woods And lake ot Maine Its Me ml Katahdln and often mountains o-ften his guides on the ntlIoi end rivers the foaming rapids anti the dangerous dan-gerous precipicehwers the Indiana who welcomed him as a lover at nature anti gladly taught him their simple woodcraft wood-craft Scant was the baggan4i he travelett with long Intervals could lie do without with-out food or water thoroughly Inured was he to heat and cold and the story la I told ot him that his curiosity even led him to sleep In a barrel In a snowdrift i snow-drift In order to ascertain the warmth of that kind of comforter He published Interesting accounts at his walks about cape Cod and his voy ages on tin Concord andldc iirniae riv I era lie also wrote n book l on Walden Thl3 contains a chapter on w oo 1 round which lovers at naluio ought to know by heart Thoreau was shy of strangers Ills favorite guests wero the children and he lived to teach them the perth tt nature Ills friends mre dar but best I ot all he loved hIs solitudes And nlvuvs turned Ills beef on office after hIj lee I turing tours overjoyed that ho vas hy Ing to his woods What could he not Allhot the note 2 ot Insects and birds 1 What coulj h not Interpret of the tones of tho fees footed animals What lid > 1 he not know IIC the scarce an < l curlou3 Jloero nro w Inc In most Infrequented places How many plants did he discover In COnoN wosla that no ono had or observed before One In particular was the climbing torn Ther there Nas the rd allow arctic that ho found In one of his walks so elating him that ho told Emerson he even expected to find Ih Victoria real In these prolino soil tulle l Dear simple grand Thorrnu who iNns nM even afraid tu ritah n tell for old John Brown after his nrrcifat Harpers Torn In spite of tile ndvlei ot his townsman as public sympathy was then entirely against hh old frletiel Well has Emerson compared him to the Sulss dlwls thnt rare 1I0wr Win BlgnltVatlon Is I noble purity and hi further wrote that Thoreau seemed fly ing In tho hope tu Rather thin plant which belonged to him of rlcht To quote from thl seer of Concord The country knows not yet ot In the least Part how Arent n ROn It has lot When tho Alcotts owned The Way iletes t they called It The llllUlile prom ISO to IStSthy resided there nnd theo moved to Boston In IS7 they leturn oil 1 and settled In the Orchard Itnuse which was next Tho Wayeilde attotl nti aft rwnrd we field him supeilntendmp the public crhools of Concoid surooatull cultivating the few Acres about 111 nie I not r UCting phlloophhlnr and I hOl < < Hnlt his famott conversations lon divinity human nature elietQtic and n wide 1 1 range of practical questions Alpo he wna one ot the originator oC the Transcendental Amonr lho ending silrlt were George Plplcy Ralph Within nmerson James rrwman Jlnrke Theodore Parker Mnrgnrctrn ler and I William 11 Chnnnlng During this period of transen ntnl agitation Mr Alcotl paused thnmh certain stairen as Ioflfer lie gave up II anImal food Joined the Antislavery Pat clely was active as an abolitionist end ecamo Interested In the cstnMlnhmmt oC a community at Harvard MRS This community Ilroolt Form although uo ler the guidance of itch persons ni George Itlpley Margaret Puller unl Nathaniel Ilanthrrne Ml through nhlch loa piobably tit boot thing tint could have happened Ha failure taught Mr Iott n severe lesson 1 Palo lho elnonlclei1 aa afternnrd he hall he I desire to change the condition ul men upon earth them to modify and enlighten en-lighten their Innurd life Mr Alcott was ever hoping that t school of the first phlloorhy would I established somewhere In Xew Cntfui and aa early as 1812 began to llerl books for the library of such n B hoot Moreover an English gentleman Ur Jame lerrepnnt Oreave a dlrtpi ot Irstnlonl actually bequeathed him n collection of curious volumes whltl wr subsequently deposited In Co cord to wall the blessed time viticnC school of philosophy should spring In elng And spring Into being It dlj ottt these volumes hd tnod for yearn on the shelve of tho Orchard House The school was opened Informally at Concord Con-cord In 1S79 with Its faculty of ptillou Play And members front many different localities the Orchard lloue being the place of mectlux 1 Mr I AIett was the Ian and Mr r B Sanbo the secretary sec-retary Concord ha erected a fine moaumnt to those oC hr soldiers Uho fell In the late civil war rt record on a brows tablet the names of all the heroes The lotto Is Palthful Unto Death Close by In I the old elm under mhleh Rev William Emerson made Ills la moua address to the minutemen OR the morning 01 the Concord fight and here neatly 0 hundred years afterward his grandson Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the dedicatory address ot this monument his most distinguished III tenors being the descendants ot there mInutemen who had but Just returned from the battlefields of the south The grave of Hawthorne Pmenon Thoreau and the Alcotts are In Sleepy Hollow cemetery Yes here together In their last sleep lie those who have made Concord the star In the east to those ot us who are fired with reveren flat love for goodness and genius om billed These are classic ashes Tread your softest but let the healt snell In Joyous thanksgiving that America has such a spot I of ground I Happy eo t ye river worshiper In I that lovely river that aa your ThoU says moves through your historic valleys val-leys with the moccnalned tread of ono Indian warrior I Happier are ye In your houses breathing of the times I Of old In your historic association In I Your monuments In your mettalOut otrenlS anti groves that have so Oftfs rung with the tones 01 genius In Our hills engraved no thy dre i with tM testing Imrrelon nt great minds but happiest In your dear Sleepy Hollo with Us graves of the Immortals As Mr r B Banborn wrote of this The waving woods these valley Iw lletwnen those tufted knoll Y one after nr shall dearer grow 1o many loving souls I And flowers bti sweeter here than Note Elsewhere between the poles I ELIZABI5TII BinKMAICn |
