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. And children coming home from school Look... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 4191840Full view - About this book
| 1914 - 1240 pages
...a heavenly benediction? Or, have you not seen a father, who like Longfellow's Village Blacksmith— "He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his...He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his hear.t rejoice." Yes. the singing is... | |
| Robert F. Wiseman - Technology & Engineering - 1995 - 316 pages
...heavy 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...He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. 4. And children coming home from school Look in at the...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 and preach, He... | |
| Poetry - 1982 - 348 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...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from the threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson... | |
| Donald Hall - American poetry - 1985 - 266 pages
...heavy 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...bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1988 - 442 pages
...heavy 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...He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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...He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
| Robert B. Gordon, Patrick M. Malone - Social Science - 1997 - 457 pages
...industrial growth, the village smithy often stood under a spreading chestnut tree, a place where . . . children coming home from school Look in at the open...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.7 Today young people are rarely allowed to enter workplaces for fear of lawsuit. The... | |
| William J. Bennett - Juvenile Fiction - 1997 - 392 pages
...heavy 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...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... | |
| Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...heavy 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...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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