And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sorry I can't comment on your blog, which I greatly enjoy. Anyhow, in response to your Village Blacksmith post today, here's one I learned as a kid from my uncle who was born in the 1880s
Under the spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy snoozes. No horse since 1923 Has come to him for shoeses.
Yup.
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ReplyDeleteSorry I can't comment on your blog, which I greatly enjoy. Anyhow, in response to your Village Blacksmith post today, here's one I learned as a kid from my uncle who was born in the 1880s
Under the spreading chestnut tree,
The village smithy snoozes.
No horse since 1923
Has come to him for shoeses.
Schofield No. #2 (?)
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