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Blurb: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.
Longfellow liked his epics but he was something of a short fellow when he penned this sweet, sentimental, sing-songy little poem in less than fifty lines about a blacksmith with arms as 'strong as iron bands' and a tear in his eye for his dead wife.
He hammers away with 'measured beat and slow' while schoolchildren watch the sparks. Then he goes to church where his daughter's singing makes him rejoice because 'It sounds to him like her mother's voice.'
Pure syrup for sure, but you'd have to have a heart like an anvil to avoid a sniffle.