 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.  The Irish Quarterly Review - Page 2001855Full view - About this book
 | Hearty staves, John Erskine Clarke - Hymns, English - 1858 - 152 pages
...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. AVeek in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his... | |
 | 1858 - 930 pages
...that fly Like chaff from a thrashing floor." The smith is always at work, never absent from his post. "Week in, week out, from morn till night, Y'ou can hear his bellows blow, Y'ou can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow." How many have passed such a... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 202 pages
...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...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... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat; His hair is crisp, and black, and long; He ea,rns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Children - 1859 - 198 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Carriage and wagon making - 1859 - 418 pages
...is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, lie earns whate'er he can, * And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man." The village smith is " an institution," no doubt, in many country places, but instead of — as Longfellow... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 pages
...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...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... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 196 pages
...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...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... | |
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