 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.  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 4191840Full view - About this book
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow...his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And the children coming home from... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. 3. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge With mcasur'd beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. 4. And... | |
 | James Everett - 1863 - 252 pages
...man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron hands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is...his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like sexton ringing the old kirk chimes When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school... | |
 | Robert F. Wiseman - Technology & Engineering - 1995 - 316 pages
...what'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow;...measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. 3. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow...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 open... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Biography & Autobiography - 1954 - 452 pages
...have in our mind seldom or never warms to his work, and merely smites because it is the way of him. "You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow." If a man must strike, let him do it in earnest; but there is no need for perpetual pounding. There... | |
 | Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...whate'er he can. And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man . Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow;...measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell , When the evening sun is low . And children coming home from school , Look in at the... | |
 | Donald Hall - American poetry - 1985 - 266 pages
...whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow;...measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1988 - 442 pages
...whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow;...measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow;...measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell,' When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open... | |
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