[1] By Ralph Waldo Emerson, at the dedication, April 19, 1836, of the monument erected at Concord in honor of the patriots who fell in the battle of Lexington sixty-one years before. [2] Published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775. [3] Used with the courteous permission of the publishers, The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. [4] From the National Ode, July 4, 1876. [5] From the Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865. [6] From the Biographical Edition of the Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley. Copyright 1913. Used by special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.