...examined in the next chapter. Chapter 9 Denmark, 0-600 AD, and the furnace clay material Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands...with large and sinewy hands and the muscles of his browny arms are strong as iron bands. HWLongfellow, The Village Blacksmith, 1839. At the beginning...

...Spirit/' Author Unknown Lesson: _ Evidence: The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands:...is he. With large and sinewy hands: And the muscles on his brawny arms Are as strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp. and black and long. His face is...

...place to watch the large bellows send the sparks from the coal fire flying in all directions. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands;...the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands. -"The Village Blacksmith," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The sound of the bellows and the swish...

...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...

...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,...