Which lines from the poem most strongly support the inference that Paul Revere's Ride happened long before the poem was written? A.) Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere (lines 1-2)
B.) Hardly a man is now alive/Who remembers that famous day and year (lines 4-5)
C.) Where swinging wide at her moorings lays/The Somerset, British man-of-war (lines 18-19)
D.) Then he said, "Good Night!" and with muffled oar/ Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore (lines 15-16)​