CONCORD HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Here once the embattled farmers stood, The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, That memory may their deed redeem, Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, The shaft we raise to them and thee. MAY-DAY. DAUGHTER of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring, Teaching barren moors to smile, Out of the hazy land? Harp of the wind, or song of bird, Of the pent and darkened lake, Cooled by the pendent mountain's shade, Whose deeps, till beams of noonday break, Afflicted moan, and latest hold Even into May the iceberg cold. Where yon wedged line the Nestor leads, Steering north with raucous cry Through tracts and provinces of sky, |