StoryTitle("caps", "The Village Blacksmith") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", "By permission of, and by special arrangement with Houghton, Mifflin & Co.") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under a spreading chestnut tree", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The village smithy stands;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The smith, a mighty man is he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With large and sinewy hands;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the muscles of his brawny arms", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are strong as iron bands.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His hair is crisp, and black, and long,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His face is like the tan;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His brow is wet with honest sweat;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He earns whate'er he can,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And looks the whole world in the face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For he owes not any man.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Week in, week out, from morn till night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You can hear his bellows blow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With measured beat and slow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a sexton ringing the village bell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When the evening sun is low.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And children coming home from school", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Look in at the open door;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They love to see the flaming forge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And hear the bellows roar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And catch the burning sparks that fly", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like chaff from a threshing floor.", "") ?>
PagePoem(100, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He goes on Sunday to the church,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sits among his boys;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hears the parson pray and preach,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He hears his daughter's voice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing in the village choir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And it makes his heart rejoice.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Onward through life he goes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each morning sees some task begun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Each evening see its close;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Something attempted, something done,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Has earned a night's repose.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>