Concord+Hymn

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=[|The Concord Hymn]= Ralph Waldo Emerson


 * The Battle of Lexington and Concord took place at the "rude bridge"


 * Emerson speaks of the monument as a replica that stands for all those people who gave their lives for a battle in which everyone was willing to sacrifice their lives for what was right, both enemies and Americans.


 * Emerson speaks to a spirit in the last stanza and it appears as if he feels that the monument is for that spirit that makes people brave not for all the people that died but to the spirit that made them able to fight so daringly.