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."