...chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow: You can hear him swing his...

...chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his...

...chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Much has changed since Longfellow wrote his enduring poem almost 150...

...chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron...can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owns not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear...

...chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; ` 6516 In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. 6517 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' But the...

...the embodiment of certain basic values, a strong man whose "brow is wet with honest sweat" and who "looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man." Longfellow's blacksmith teaches the typical American "lesson" that "at the flaming forge of life /...

...chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow, You can hear him swing his...

...chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his...

...chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man." Proud, honorable, and in marvelously good physical shape — that was true of many of the workers we...

...already becoming a nostalgic image from the past when Longfellow wrote "The Village Blacksmith" in 1839: His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er...whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Even as they scrambled to take advantage of it, Americans frequently bemoaned the new economic order....