Concord Hymn - Patriots Day

"Concord Hymn" performed by the Choir of First Parish Church, Concord, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Norton, Director. "Concord Hymn" 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.