{"id":8408,"date":"2022-08-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2022-08-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T05:00:00","slug":"the-village-blacksmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-village-blacksmith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Village Blacksmith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, August 14, 1914<\/a>. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under a spreading chestnut-tree
    The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
    With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
    Are strong as iron bands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 a sexton ringing the village bell,
    When the evening sun is low. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And children coming home from school
    Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
    And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
    Like chaff from a threshing-floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He goes on Sunday to the church,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He hears his daughter’s voice
Singing in the village choir
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And it makes his heart rejoice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sounds to him like her mother’s voice,
    Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
    How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
    A tear out of his eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toiling,\u2014rejoicing,\u2014sorrowing,
    Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
    Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done,
    Has earned a night’s repose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
    For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
    Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
    Each burning deed and thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, August 14, 1914. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Under a spreading chestnut-tree    The village smithy stands;The smith, a mighty man is he,    With large and sinewy hands;And the muscles of his brawny arms    Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long,    His face is like the tan;His brow is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-8408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers","tag-henry-wadsworth-longfellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}