Note 3 — Chapter III · THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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On the pedestal of this statue, which stands in front of the North Bridge at Concord, is engraved the following quotation from Emerson’s “Concord Hymn:"—
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
The poet’s grandfather, Rev. William Emerson, watched the fight from a window of the Old Manse.