Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 106
not any man. 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 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 VILLAGE BLACKSMITH He hears the parson pray and preach,He hears his daughters voice, Singing in the village choir.And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like her mothers voice, Singing in Paradise!He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies;And with his hard, rough…
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