nd whose magnificent resuits shine through as the beacon-light of free popular governd who won this victory? The minute-men a, who in the history of our English race always the vanguard of freedom. minute-man of the American Revolution!e? He was the husband and father who, ve liberty, and to know that lawful liberty is uaranty of peace and progress, left the plow row and the hammer on the bench, and, kissand children, marched to die or to be free. e son and lover, the plain, shy youth of the hool and the village choir, whose heart beat or his country, and who felt, though he could with the old English cavalier, — "I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. 99 He was the minute-man of the Revolution! middle-aged, and the young. He was Captain Concord, who said that he went to battle as to church. He was Captain Davis, of Acton, oved his men for jesting on the march. He eon Josiah Haynes, of Sudbury, eighty years marched with his company to the South Bridge, d, then joined in the hot pursuit to Lexington, s gloriously as Warren at Bunker Hill. was James Hayward, of Acton, twenty-two , foremost in that deadly race from Concord estown, who raised his piece at the same with a British soldier, each exclaiming, "You ad man." The Briton dropped, shot through t. James Hayward fell, mortally wounded. "he said, "I started with forty balls; I have I love more than my mother that I a turned out." 7. This was the minute-man of t The rural citizen, trained in the comm church, and the town-meeting, who ca that thought, and whose gun, loaded w brought down, not a man, but a syst gratefully recall to-day, — him, in yon wrought in the metal which but feebly exorable will, we commit in his immort reverence of our children. 8. And here among these peaceful the county whose children first gave American union and independence, her of Middlesex, county of Lexington an Bunker Hill, stand fast, Son of Liberty ute-man stood at the old North Bridg we or our descendants, false to liberty, and humanity, betray in any way thei into life as a hundred years ago, take descend, and lead us, as God led you, in to save the hopes of man. im'mi-nent, threatening, - said of cav-a-lier', security. or horseman or gallant man. minute-man, one ready at a minute's notice to resis early period of the Revolutionary struggle. The mil are trained in military tactics, but not regular soldiers. Explain "who carried a bayonet that thought, and with a principle," etc. (7) 1 A bronze statue representing a "Son of L KIV. — THE OLD CONTINENTALS GUY HUMPHREY MCMASTER. 1. IN their ragged regimentals When the grenadiers were lunging, When the files Of the Isles, From the smoky night encampment And grummer, grummer, grummer 2. Then with eyes to the front all, And the balls whistled deadly, As the roar On the shore Swept the strong battle-breakers O'er the green-sodded acres Of the plain; And louder, louder, louder Cracked the black gunpowder, Continentals (1), the soldiers of the Continental army, American Colonies was called in the Revolutionary war. — rs of the British Isles. - Unicorn (1). The fabulous animal corn is represented in the British coat of arms. " villain r" (3). See page 39 (the citation from Shakespeare, King WILLIAM TELL AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. KNOWLES. ERIDAN KNOWLES was a popular dramatist and actor, born at nd, in 1784. He died in 1862. gs and peaks, I'm with you once again! to you the hands you first beheld, w they still are free. Methinks I hear it in your echoes answer me id your tenant welcome home again! Hail! O sacred forms, how proud you look! high you lift your heads into the sky! huge you are! how mighty, and how free: e the things that tower, that shine, whose smile s glad, whose frown is terrible, whose forms, or unrobed, do all the impress wear e divine. Ye guards of liberty, with you once again! I call to you |