 | April Pflug - 2000 - 82 Seiten
...the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? Francis Scott Key Brief meaning: 2. Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands;...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. Brief meaning: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and... | |
 | Aldren A Watson - 2000 - 194 Seiten
...Bibliography 1 65 Index 169 The Blacksmith Ironworker and Farrier Prologue 1 Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands: The smith, a mighty man...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. There are few men left who can recall the once-familiar scene that inspired Longfellow to write this... | |
 | David E. Bonior - 2001 - 276 Seiten
...stanza from memory, feeling each word and taking the pleasure of each meter and rhyme, he mesmerizes us. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. He continues for all eight verses. Charlie may be dreaming of himself as a young man. We marvel at... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 Seiten
...pound, smith, smithy, blacksmith, goldsmith, locksmith, etc., and the legion oí Smiths. Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands;...muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. -Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith (1842) (s)meit: throw; send. The first sense seems to have been... | |
 | Martin T. Orne - 2001 - 76 Seiten
...iron band; The smith is very happy As he owes not any man. The actual second stanza is as follows: His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is...the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat He earns what e'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. The last line remembered... | |
 | John Greenleaf - 2004 - 201 Seiten
...ofWellness and Movement Sciences, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico. USA Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands;...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands... He earns w hate'er he cau, And looks the whole world in the lace. For he owes not any man.... | |
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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. 
