Johanna

“Some say the tale related here        Is amplified and twisted;      Some say it isn't very clear        That William Tell existed;      Some say he freed his country so,        The Governor demolished.      Perhaps he did. I only know        That taxes aren't abolished!”
― P.G. Wodehouse, William Tell Told Again

“You know the rest.
In the books you have read,
How the British Regulars fired and fled,—
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,
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!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.”
― Margaret Spraque Carhart, Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
― Margaret Spraque Carhart, Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

“Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.”
― Margaret Spraque Carhart, Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier