To strike for freedom and be free:—

Our king is God alone!

“Load well with powder and with ball,

Stand firmly, like a living wall;

But fire not till the foe shall call

A shot from every one,”

Said Parker to his gallant men.

Then Pitcairn dashed across the plain,

Discharged an angry threat, and then

The world heard Lexington!

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Militia and brave minute-men

Stood side by side upon the plain,

Unsheltered in the storm of rain,

Of fire, and leaden sleet;

But through the gray smoke and the flame,

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