The Judy called today to remind me to commemorate the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Because we're awesome like that. Dad always used to recite the following on this day:
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;
The poem is apparently a lot longer than this - I had no idea because Dad never went past "one if by land, and two if by sea". I guess he felt like he'd hit all the important points.
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