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frazzled

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4. I think anyone who grew up in Indiana and had to memorize

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 10:37 PM

Apr 2012

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith" (which was de rigueur (required) when I was a kid, and I've never forgotten it):

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. ...

Honestly, you think people have never heard of blacksmiths or a smithy (blacksmith's workshop; forge)?

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My favorite of all time frazzled Apr 2012 #1

How many that might see your post will actually know what the "smithy" really means? A HERETIC I AM Apr 2012 #2

I do! I do! nolabear Apr 2012 #3

I think anyone who grew up in Indiana and had to memorize frazzled Apr 2012 #4

"Honestly, you think people have never heard of blacksmiths or a smithy" A HERETIC I AM Apr 2012 #6

I think you underestimate our schools frazzled Apr 2012 #7

New Yorker Toons burrowowl Apr 2012 #5