Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith"
The Daily Poem · Sean Johnson
December 6, 20234m 40s
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Show Notes
"The spirit of the smithy is so close to the spirit of song that it has mixed in a million poems, and every blacksmith is a harmonious blacksmith. Even the village children feel that in some dim way the smith is poetic, as the grocer and the cobbler are not poetic, when they feast on the dancing sparks and deafening blows in the cavern of that creative violence.” -G. K. Chesterton
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