Our 6th Grade Teacher, Mr. Lyons, gave us an assignment to memorize "The Village Blacksmith" by Longfellow ... thing is, we had to stand before our classmate and RECITE it . Because I absolutely LOVED his poem,, it was EZ for me and so so difficult for the others--- but that's not the point here . What IS the Point is that this Poen and its `sensibilities` stayed with me throughout my entire life, so much tha. I can still recite the opening stanzas {no prob}.
These lines stand out : "His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate're he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man."
These aren't just 'lines' they are GUIDE Lines for those of us that move along the Path toward Manhood .
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