"Concord Hymn" (original title was "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1838") is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of the Obelisk, a monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the Battle of Concord, the second in a series of battles and skirmishes on April 19, 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution.