"He springs to the saddle, the bridle, he turns,But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns.
A hurry of hoops in a village street,"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One fact I learned on my tour through the Freedom trail was the fact that he was married twice, his first wife died and he had 16 children! Busy man!
2 comments:
I've been past that monument before. I know you said Boston has a European feel about it -- and it does, absolutely -- but I think it's got a patriotic feel as well.
~Emily
That's a heck of a lot of kids! My goodness!
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