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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... "
The Poet's Gift: Illustrated by One of Her Painters - Page 36
edited by - 1845 - 320 pages
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43

1844 - 454 pages
...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, Aid hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly, Like chaff from a threshing...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 16

American periodicals - 1840 - 560 pages
...With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the old kirk chimes When the evening aun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door j They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 7

1841 - 744 pages
...measured beat and slow, — Like a sexton ringing the old kirk-chimes, 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....
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...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...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray...
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The Children's Magazine and Missionary Repository, Volume 19

Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...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...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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...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...the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And cateh the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the chureh,...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...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...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray...
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Perennial Flowers

Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children, coming home from school, Look in at...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from the threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE AMUSEMENT , AND INSTRUCTION : VOL V

The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...beat, and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. 74 THE MIRROR. And children coming home from school Look in at the...catch the burning sparks that fly, Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray...
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Gems from the American Poets: With Brief Biographical Notices

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun ia low. And children coming home from school, Look in at the...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...
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