 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 506 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... | |
 | Robert F. Wiseman - Technology & Engineering - 1995 - 316 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 Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. 4. And children coming home from school Look in at the...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. 5. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | Poetry - 1982 - 348 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 the threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson... | |
 | Donald Hall - American poetry - 1985 - 266 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...bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1988 - 442 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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... | |
 | Robert B. Gordon, Patrick M. Malone - Social Science - 1997 - 457 pages
...industrial growth, the village smithy often stood under a spreading chestnut tree, a place where . . . children coming home from school Look in at the open...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.7 Today young people are rarely allowed to enter workplaces for fear of lawsuit. The... | |
 | William J. Bennett - Juvenile Fiction - 1997 - 392 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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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... | |
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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. 
