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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Blacksmith
And he sang: “Hurra for my handiwork!”And the red sparks lit the air;Not alone for the blade was the bright steel made;And he fashioned the first ploughshare.
Chas. Mackay.
Under a spreading chestnut treeThe village smithy stands;The smith a mighty man is he,With large and sinewy hands;And the muscles of his brawny armsAre strong as iron bands.
Longfellow.
And the smith his iron measures hammered to the anvil’s chime;Thanking God, whose boundless wisdom makes the flowers of poesy bloomIn the forge’s dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom.
Longfellow.