• In that edition the poem appeared with the three line title "HYMN: / SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, / April 19, 1836."
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  • Concord Hymn. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Sung at the completion of the battle monument, july 4, 1837.
  • Concord Hymn , sometimes simply referred to as Hymn , references the famed, "shot heard round the world" marking the beginning of the American...
  • Lines from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn have passed into the lexicon of American history.
  • In the first stanza of ‘Concord Hymn’, the speaker begins by describing the landscape within which the Battle of Concord occurred.
  • Yet a few poems toward the end of the volume, such as “Concord Hymn,” deal more concretely with Emerson’s life in Concord.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson’s celebrated poem “Concord Hymn” commemorates the battle of Concord, Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War.