"One if by Land" Tea Towel Celebrating the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere / The History List

"One if by Land" Tea Towel Celebrating the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere / The History ListArt created for Old North Church. Includes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous line, "One if by land, two if by sea," from his poem about Revere's ride. (See below for historical background and the entire poem.) Size: 28" x 29" About the towel: Printed on a 100% cotton premium flour sack towel with an off white natural color. Cut, dyed, sewn and printed in America. "Longfellow was inspired to write the poem after visiting the Old North Church and

Art created for Old North Church. Includes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous line, "One if by land, two if by sea," from his poem about Revere's ride. (See below for historical background and the entire poem.)

Size: 28" x 29"

About the towel: Printed on a 100% cotton premium flour sack towel with an off-white natural color. Cut, dyed, sewn and printed in America.

"Longfellow was inspired to write the poem after visiting the Old North Church and climbing its tower on April 5, 1860. He began writing the poem the next day.

It was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. It was later re-published in Longfellow's Tales of the Wayside Inn as The Landlord's Tale in 1863. [The entire text of the poem appears below.]

The poem served as the first in a series of 22 narratives bundled as a collection, similar to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and was published in three installments over 10 years.

Longfellow's family had a connection to the historical Paul Revere. His maternal grandfather, Peleg Wadsworth, was Revere's commander on the Penobscot Expedition."