Paul Revere's Ride THE LANDLORD'S TALE by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Illustrated by Charles Santore APPLESAUCE PRESS KENNEBUNKPORT MAINE
Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere On the eighteenth of April in Seventy five Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year
He said to his friend If the British march By land or sea from the town to night Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light One if by land and two if by sea And I on the opposite shore will be Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm