Identifier: centurybookoffam5902broo (find matches)
Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 Daughters of the American Revolution
Subjects: Historic buildings Statesmen
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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id this voicelessold bell hold and fascinate the boys and girls. Uncle Tom shared their interest. It certainly is one of the most impressive relics in the world, he de-clared, as they passed from the Congress room to the National Museumacross the hall. I always feel as though I were looking on a real par-ticipator in the historic event which it proclaimed so vigorously a hundredyears or more ago. As you are, Bert declared; while Christine, looking at the windinghall stair, exclaimed: Oh, was it up those stairs that the boy ran to tell his grandfather toring? You remember the old story, do you ? laughed Uncle Tom. Thoseshould be the stairs, if they have not been renewed or rebuilt. As to thetruth of that story, I am not prepared to decide. It s good enough to be true, anyhow, said Roger. It s all just like the poem, said Christine. Let s see, how did itgo? and she repeated the opening verse of the bell-ringer story as shehad spoken it in school : 78 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS
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JULY 4, 1776. Squarely prim and stoutly built.Free from glitter and from gilt,Plain, from lintel up to roof-tree and to belfrybare and brown,Stands the Hall that hot July,While the folk throng anxious by,Where the Continental Congress meets withinthe Quaker town. Hark! a stir, a sudden shout.And a boy comes springing out,Signalling to where his grandsire in thebelfry waiting stands: Ring! he cries; the deed is done !Ring! they ve signed, and freedom swon!And the ringer grasps the bell-rope with hisstrong and sturdy hands; While the Bell, with joyous note.Clanging from its brazen throat,Rings the tidings, all-exultant—peals thenews from shore to sea : Man is man— a slave no longer.Truth and Right than Might are stronger.Praise to God ! we re free y tee re free . THE HOME OF THE LIBERTY BELL 79 They lingered long over the extensive collection of revolutionary relicsin the museum room; they visited the Congress Hall, where Washingtonand Adams had both been inaugurated ; they hunted u

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