 | Nigel Rees - 2006 - 592 Seiten
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 | Mark R. Schwen, Dorothy C. Bass - 2006 - 580 Seiten
...What "lesson" has the blacksmith taught? What can we learn from him? Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. From The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin... | |
 | Longfellow - 2007 - 680 Seiten
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 | Edwin Davies - 2008 - 688 Seiten
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 | Larry Murdock - 2008 - 216 Seiten
...with the above first lines on the village smithy - which, by the way, inspired a wonderful painting: "The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands." You get the idea. A mighty man? Iron bands? Longfellow's versifying immediately goes down in a heap,... | |
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His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. 
