When it was originally performed, it was sung to the tune Old Hundredth and it was written while its author lived in The Old Manse.
It ends with an invocation to "Time and Nature" to spare the "shaft" on which part of it is famously printed. When it was originally performed, it was sung to the tune Old Hundredth and it was written while its author lived in The Old Manse. Its famous first stanza is engraved on French's "The Minute Man" statue, and ends with the famous line "Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard ‘round the world." For ten points, identify poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first read at the opening of a monument in his Massachusetts hometown.
It ends with an invocation to "Time and Nature" to spare the "shaft" on which part of it is famously printed.
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