Listen my children     you shall hear
 Of the midnight      of Paul Revere,
 On the eighteenth    April, in Seventy-five;
 Hardly a man is now alive
 Who remembers that        day and year.

 He said to                 the British march
 By land or          the town to-night,
 Hang a lantern          the belfry arch
 Of the North                 a signal light,--
 One if by               if by sea;

 And I on              shore will be,
 Ready to ride     spread the alarm
 Through every Middlesex village and farm,
 For the country               and to arm."