 | American poetry - 1852 - 183 pages
...Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. L_ 74 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. And children, coming home from school, Look in at...; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bejltvs roar, And catch the bu^ng sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 550 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 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.... | |
 | 1853
...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 - Readers (Elementary) - 1853 - 480 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\... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - London (England) - 1853 - 327 pages
...singing the hymns of Walts. We remembered Longfellow's touching picture of the 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 heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853
...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 in at the open door ; They love to see thg flaming forge, Arid hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly He goes on Sunday... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 312 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 thrashing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | James Montgomery, John Holland - 1856
...beat, and slow .... * Alluding to Mr. Everett's Memoir of Samuel Hick, " The Village Blacksmith." " And children coming home from school, Look in at the...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor." And then the moral built upon the blacksmith's "something attempted — something... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - American literature - 1854 - 312 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 in at the opsn door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks... | |
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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. And children coming home from school Look... 
