Growing up I loved the poem by Longfellow, "The Village Blacksmith." I recall the lines, "Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands. The smith a mighty man was he, with large and ...
“Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands…” and so begins the famous poem “The Village Blacksmith” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Written in 1842, Longfellow was already imparting a ...