Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-12
~OLD lRONSIOES
THE LANDLORDS TALE.
PNrL NENI.HE.s nIDE.

PAUL KIN Iiti> RIDE.
Listen. my children. and SOU shall h-sr
or fhe midnight riIo of Paul Revere.
ON The Eighteenth OF April iu seventy
Hardly . man 's NOW alye
VINO remembers thaJ famous day and
year
Tie said 20 Dis friend ar the British
march
By land or sea from the town tonight
Hang lantern aloft boo tlr boIfry arch
OF the North Church tower as "a signal
one. II by land. and two. IL by sea:
Aud I on the opposite shore will be.
Ready 20 ride ANA spread the alarm
Through every Middlcsex village and
For he country folk to be Up and to
arm
Then he said. Good night" and with
silently rowod 20 the Charlestowu shore.
just as the moon rose over the bay.
Who're swinging wide at her mouriugs lay
Tho Somerset British mau-of-Wur.
a phantom ship. with each mast and spar
Across the moon like "a prison bar.
And huge black hulk. that was magni-
fed.
BY It's own reelection in the tide
Meanwhile. his friend. through alley and
street.
wanders and watches with eager cars.
TIN boz the silence around him ho hears
The muster Of men az tho bsrrack door
The sound OF arms and the tramp OF
feet
And the measured tread Of the grcnadiors
Marching down 10 their boats on tho
shore.
Then De climbed the tower or the old
BY he wooden stairs. with staalthy
tread.
To the belfry-ohamber overhead.
And startled the pigeons from their perch
on the somber rafters, that round him
Masses and moving shapes Of shade
By the trembling LADDER. steep and tall.
To thp highest window in the wall
where he paused 70 listen end look down
a moment on the roofs q the town,
And the moonlight flowing over ALL
Beneath. In the churchyad. lay the dead.
In their night encampment ON me hill
Wrapped IN silence so decp and sul.
THAT he could hear Ike senuuels
tread
The Watchful night-wlnd as IL went
Creeping alonE from tent tp tent
And seeming to whisper. 'Ail o. weH!'
a moment only he feels the spell
OF tho place and the hour and the secret
dread
For suddenly an his thoughts are bent
on "a shadowy something far away
Where the river widens to meet the bay
on Tie rising Tide. like bridge Of boats.
Meanwhile. impatient to mount and ride.
Booted and Epurred. with "a heavy stride
ON the opposite shore walked Paul
Row he pattcd his horses side,
Now eazcd AZ the Landscape FAR and
near
AND G' turned 'r" i'o and ae6tsned bits saddle
gIrth.
The belfry tower OF thc Ola North
church.
I.opely ana spertraI ana somber and sim
And Dog as hp looks. un the bHItry'a height
4 gI.mmer, ana then CLEAN of light
He SPRINGS 20 the saddle. the bride no
Rut Fingers and razes. ana FUN ou his
sIrht
A second Ianp boz the btlfrt burusf
a hurry Of hoofs lu % village street,
a suapo Don the moonlight. bulk 900 The
DARK "
And beneath. from the pebbles. lu pass
lur a spark
struck out by steed flying fearless and
That WAS au' And yet through the gloom
and thc light
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And thr spark struck ont by that s,oed
|u his UIghf
<fpaia5 tb, lInd into aamo with its heat
d.. has faft tho village and mounted tho
-f,au
And beneath him. TRANQUIL and broad and
d..r
And uYder ffe aIdrrs. that skirt lts rdgH,
N.v. a.ff Ur thp sand uuw loud Ur fu.
NO" Isdss ''
Ia ha8rd the tramp of his stvgd us Doc
rIdrs
Do ,,.... twelve, by fUr VILLAGE clock
1ytsr r. crossed fnt bridge into Mell1rl
town
AF 'tb. nrrt.IfIp az tI. ftffngr'- dog.
Al fIf tFs damn of mo river fog
-rbIf rIs.s 4fter tne sun goes down
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Wien bo sSnopsd into Lexington