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Quotation from Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar,”
Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 20-21 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863))
The British warship Somerset seen against the moon as Revere rows to Charlestown, an image of the power he is defying.
Citation: "A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar," — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 20-21 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)). (id paul-reveres-ride-q3)
Portrait: Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Atlantic Monthly, Public domain.
