| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 394 pages
...with measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the old kirk chimes when the evening sun is low. 4. And children, coming home from school, look in at...catch the burning sparks that fly like chaff from a threshing-floor. 5. He goes on Sunday to the church, and sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray... | |
| Helen Cross Knight - 1857 - 454 pages
...blow ; You ean hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat, and slow .... And children eoming home from school, Look in at the open door ; They...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor." And then the moral built upon the blacksmith's " something attempted — something... | |
| Helen Cross Knight - 1857 - 458 pages
...hear hia bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat, and slow .... 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." And then the moral built upon... | |
| Thomas Crampton - 1858 - 264 pages
...face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow: You can hear him swing his heavy sledge. With measured...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... | |
| John Erskine Clarke - 1858 - 152 pages
...morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With measiired beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell...catch the burning sparks that fly, Like chaff from a threshing-floor. And sits among the boys ; Ho hears the parson pray and preach, He goes on Sunday to... | |
| 1858 - 918 pages
...Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands." and then he tells us how the children love to see " the flaming, forge, And hear the bellows...sparks that fly Like chaff from a thrashing floor." The smith is always at work, never absent from his post. "Week in, week out, from morn till night,... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured...slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door — They love to... | |
| Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...; For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With measured...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured...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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 202 pages
...face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With measured...see the flaming forge*, And hear the bellows roar; To see the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from the threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church,... | |
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