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Quotation from Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 93-94 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863))

Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of the three clock-stanzas that mark the ride's progress from Medford to Concord.

Citation: "It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 93-94 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)). (id paul-reveres-ride-q5)

Portrait: Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Atlantic Monthly, Public domain.

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