Poem of the Day - Part 14

The Village Blacksmith

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The poem is long, but it begins like this:

            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.

(gif from photographs in Animal Locomotion by Edweard Muybridge, 1887)