C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Blacksmith

And he sang: “Hurra for my handiwork!”
And the red sparks lit the air;
Not alone for the blade was the bright steel made;
And he fashioned the first ploughshare.

Chas. Mackay.

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.

Longfellow.

And the smith his iron measures hammered to the anvil’s chime;
Thanking God, whose boundless wisdom makes the flowers of poesy bloom
In the forge’s dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom.

Longfellow.

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