June 6: You live in a free country — if you defend it
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. June 6, 2021 That’s the opening stanza of the “Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first sung in 1837 at the dedication of the Concord Battle Monument. An American …
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