Concord Hymn

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Concord Hymn (1847)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Originally titled "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836". Emerson wrote this poem for the 1837 dedication of the Obelisk, a monument commemorating the 1775 Battle of Concord at the outbreak of the American Revolution.

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Versions of Concord Hymn include:

As "Hymn" in Poems (1847)
"Concord Hymn" in The Riverside song book, as song, 1893.
"Concord Hymn" in Poems (Household Edition, 1904)