250 Years Later: Paul Revere's Ride

Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere on 18 April in 75 Hardly a man is now alive. He said to his friend, if the British march by land or sea from the town to night Hang a lantern or loft in the belfry arch of the north church tower as a signal light one if by land and two if by sea an eye on the opposite shore will be. So through the night rode Paul Revere and so through the night went his cry of alarm to every Middlesex village and farm A cry of defiance and naught to fear A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door and a word that shall echo forevermore for borne on the night wind of the past through all our history to the last and the hour of darkness in peril and need the people will waken and listen to hear the horrifying hoof beat of that seed in the midnight message of Paul Revere.