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Quotation from Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.”
Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 77-80 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863))
The poem's central claim: a small, almost invisible act carried the fate of a nation.
Citation: "That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 77-80 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)). (id paul-reveres-ride-q4)
Portrait: Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Atlantic Monthly, Public domain.
