Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Ma.

American poet James Russell Lowell wrote in his poem "Lines" (1849) of the graves of two of the three British soldiers who died at the bridge:

 

"Two graves are here: to mark the place,

At head and foot, an unhewn stone,

O'er which the herald lichens trace

The blazon of Oblivion."

 

But in 1910 residents of Concord placed a plaque to mark the graves using other lines from Lowell's poem:

 

"Grave of British Soldiers

They came three thousand miles and died,

to keep the past upon its throne:

Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,

their English Mother made her moan."

April 19, 1775

Done