Festival of song: a series of evenings with the poets . Longfellow. Chadwick, Fields. Masscy, Bulwer-Lytton, Holmes. Emerson, R. LBrov/n, >J. Arnold. C. Young, Ptreet. H. Coleridge, Frances Erown, Proctor. Fv, Browning, A. i: roctor. Baiiey. A. .imith, .Jaxe. Hinxraan. Kingsley. 3. Taylor, Robert Lowel Thackeray. Macauiay. T^e^lvjood, J. R. Lowell, R. B. Lytton, A. J. Uoxe. Aldrioh, Tennyson. Stoddard. Stedmun, Jranch, Dickens, F. Tennyson, Allingham, Vvinter. Boker, Ingeiow. 34. T JNDER a spreading chestnut-tree, the village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, with large and sin
Festival of song: a series of evenings with the poets . Longfellow. Chadwick, Fields. Masscy, Bulwer-Lytton, Holmes. Emerson, R. LBrov/n, >J. Arnold. C. Young, Ptreet. H. Coleridge, Frances Erown, Proctor. Fv, Browning, A. i: roctor. Baiiey. A. .imith, .Jaxe. Hinxraan. Kingsley. 3. Taylor, Robert Lowel Thackeray. Macauiay. T^e^lvjood, J. R. Lowell, R. B. Lytton, A. J. Uoxe. Aldrioh, Tennyson. Stoddard. Stedmun, Jranch, Dickens, F. Tennyson, Allingham, Vvinter. Boker, Ingeiow. 34. T JNDER a spreading chestnut-tree, the village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy hands jAnd the muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron hair is crisp, and black, and long ; his face is like the tan ;His brow is wet with honest sweat ; he earns whateer he can,And looks the whole world in the face, for he owes not any man. 315 Week in, week out, from morn till night, vou can hear his bellowsblow ??, You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, with measured beat andslow ; 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 flaming forge, and hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly like chafF from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to his church, and sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray and preach ; he hears his daughters voice Singing in the village choir, and it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to hi
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