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" Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. "
The Normal Fifth Reader - Page 211
by Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 416 pages
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43

1844 - 454 pages
...With measured beat, and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the naming forge, Aid hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly, Like chaff from a threshing...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 16

1840 - 566 pages
...With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton tinging the old kirk chimes When the evening aun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the...sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 16

1840 - 576 pages
...With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton tinging the old kirk chimes When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the...sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 16

1840 - 560 pages
...chimes When the evening aun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door j They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows...sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. v. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He heats the parson pray and preach, He...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 7

1841 - 744 pages
...measured beat and slow, — Like a sexton ringing the old kirk-chimes, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door; They love to see the naming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor....
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The Monthly Review

1842 - 610 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the...sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray and preach, He...
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray...
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The Children's Magazine and Missionary Repository, Volume 19

1856 - 1026 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a thrashing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the...the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And cateh the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the chureh,...
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Readings in American Poetry

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the...sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray and preach, He...
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