The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

On the eighteenth of april in 75, hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, if the british march by land or sea from the town to night, hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch of the north church tower as a signal light. And i, on the opposite shore, will be ready to ride and spread the alarm through every middlesex village and farm,. For the country folk be up and to arm. Then he said, good night, and with muffled oar, silently rowed to the charlestown shore. Just as the moon rose o'er the bay, where,