For 10 points, name this man, the subject of a Longfellow poem that begins "Listen my children, and you shall hear / of the midnight ride of" this man.
This character is "impatient to mount and ride" while he waits for his friend to climb "by wooden stairs with stealthy tread to the belfry." Later in his namesake poem, this character crosses in a "hurry of hoofs" to Medford Town before visiting (*) Lexington and Concord. For 10 points, name this man, the subject of a Longfellow poem that begins "Listen my children, and you shall hear / of the midnight ride of" this man.
This character is "impatient to mount and ride" while he waits for his friend to climb "by wooden stairs with stealthy tread to the belfry."
Paul Revere (accept Paul Revere's Ride)