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Tonight, we'll be reading a medley of poems concerning Independence Day and the U.S. in general.

Titles include The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I Hear

America Singing by Walt Whitman, among others.

We'll begin with Henry Wadsworth Longfellows Paul Revere's ride that commemorates

the actions of Paul Revere on April 18, 1775. Modern critics emphasize the poem's many historical

inaccuracies. Most significantly, perhaps, his Longfellow giving soul credit to revere for the collective achievements of multiple

riders. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Paul Revere's ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere on the 18th of April in 75

Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, if the British march by land or sea from the town

tonight hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch of the North Church Tower as a signal light, one if by land and two if by sea.

And I, on the opposite shore, will be ready to ride and spread the alarm through every

middle-sex village and farm, for the country folk to be up and to arm. Then he said good night and with muffled oar silently rode to the

Charlestown shore just as the moon rose over the bay were swinging wide at her moorings lay the

Somerset British man of war a phantom ship with each mast and spar across the moon like a prison bar and a huge

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