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4 years ago

Anthology 1955
Poetry for Memorial Day
Helen Hayes reads Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson plus readings by Walter Houston and Claude Raines

"Concord Hymn" (original title was "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836") is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of the Obelisk, a monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the Battle of Concord, the second in a series of battles and skirmishes on April 19, 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution.

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