 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...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. And children...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...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. And children...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chafF from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...ji 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. And children...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...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. And children...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...blow, You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children, coming...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from the threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun ia low. And children coming home from school, Look in...sparks that fly Like chaff from a thrashing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church. And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...beat, and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. 74 THE MIRROR. And children coming home from school Look in at the...catch the burning sparks that fly, Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...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. And children,...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 292 pages
...; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming...catch the burning sparks, that fly Like chaff' from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 300 pages
...; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming...roar, And catch the burning sparks, that fly Like chaif from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the... | |
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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. 
