![]() ![]() North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset historically came under Somerset County Council. The districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip and Sedgemoor. Somerset consists of a non-metropolitan county, administered by Somerset County Council, which is divided into five districts, and two unitary authorities. Some of the smaller properties include Coleridge Cottage and Stembridge Mill, the last remaining thatched windmill in England. These range from sites of Iron and Bronze Age occupations including Brean Down, Cadbury Camp and Cheddar Gorge to Elizabethan and Victorian era mansions, which include examples such as Montacute House and Tyntesfield. If you purchased this item at the Paul Revere House, or already made your donation online, enter your password here for immediate access to the product.The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (informally known as the National Trust) owns or manages a range of properties in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. Your donation helps fund projects that will enhance the visitor experience and also ensure the long-term preservation of the Paul Revere House. By making a $10 donation, you will receive the password for the downloadable 7-minute MP3 audio plus an educational document in PDF format that discusses the poem in detail, helps separate fact from fiction, and contains a map of the ride and photos. This special recording of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” was created to honor the Paul Revere House’s centennial as a museum. ![]() Want to know more about Longfellow’s poem and how Revere’s legacy developed and changed over time? Listen to this episode of Ben Franklin’s Worldtitled “Paul Revere’s Ride through History” to hear from historians about how our understanding of Revere has changed over the centuries. In the hour of darkness and peril and need,įrom The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1903 How the British Regulars fired and fled, -įrom behind each fence and farm-yard wall,Īnd so through the night went his cry of alarmĪ voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,įor, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Who at the bridge would be first to fall, When he came to the bridge in Concord town.Īnd the twitter of birds among the trees,Īnd felt the breath of the morning breeze When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.Īnd the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, He has left the village and mounted the steep,Īnd beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,Īnd under the alders that skirt its edge, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. The fate of a nation was riding that night Īnd the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, ![]() That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,īut lingers and gazes, till full on his sightĪ shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,Īnd beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.Īnd lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height The belfry-tower of the Old North Church, On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.Īnd turned and tightened his saddle-girth On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Where the river widens to meet the bay,. Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread, On the sombre rafters, that round him madeīeneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,īy the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,Īnd startled the pigeons from their perch Marching down to their boats on the shore. The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,Īnd the measured tread of the grenadiers, Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street, Then he said, “Good night!” and with muffled oarĪnd a huge black hulk, that was magnified ![]()
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