Second Lamp



And lo! as he looks, on the belfry height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns!

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882),
Paul Revere's Ride







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