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Updated AUGUST 2008

PAUL REVERE'S RIDE

The poem "Paul Revere's Ride" was written by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow a famous American poet.

Use words from the wordlist to complete the first stanza of the poem

Listen, my __________________ and you shall _________________

Of the __________________ride of __________________Revere.

On the 18th of __________________ in '75

Hardly a _________________ is now _________________

Who __________________that famous day and year.

He said to his _________________"If the British ____________

By land or _________________ from the town _________________

Hang a ______________ aloft in the _________________ arch

Of the North _________________tower as a signal _____________

One, if by _________________, and ________________ if by sea;

And I on the _________________ shore will be

Ready to _________________ and spread the _________________

Through every Middlesex ________ and ________,

For the _________folk to be up and to __________."

midnight.....hear.....church.....light.....alarm.....belfry
Paul.....lantern.....land.....farm.....friend.....sea.....two
remembers.....man.....tonight.....village.....alive.....ride
children.....arm.....march.....country.....April.....opposite

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