I Always Wondered

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What Paul Revere looked like. And here he is. The famous portrait of him that hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston oil on canvas, 1768, painted by John Singleton Copley. And Henry Wadsworth Longellow's poem about Paul Revere, called The Fame of Paul Revere: 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; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm. I remember as a child learning of his famous ride and imagining him flying through the night on a stallion to warn of the coming of the British. I now learn that Paul Revere was no elected official or in any way a politician, just a man who loved his country. How about that, did you know of him? To read more about him and his famous ride, you can go here: