Paul Revere's Ride

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
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 tonight,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--

One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
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 to be up and to arm."

These are the opening stanzas of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's immortal poem.

Above is the tower of the Old North Church, where the lanterns were hung.

And Dylan Ashworth Robinson was born on April 18th, on the very anniversary of Paul Revere's ride!