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Quotation from Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;”
Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 1-3 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863))
The storyteller's opening, which frames the poem as a tale passed down to the young.
Citation: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 1-3 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)). (id paul-reveres-ride-q1)
Portrait: Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Atlantic Monthly, Public domain.
