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Quotation from Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!”
Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 122-124 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863))
The final stanza defines the alarm as defiance and promises that it will never fall silent.
Citation: "A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride, Lines 122-124 (Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)). (id paul-reveres-ride-q6)
Portrait: Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Atlantic Monthly, Public domain.
