# The Blacksmith

- Source: McGuffey's Third Reader (third-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grades 3 and 4
- Subjects: Poems
- Topics: clink, clinkerty, we'll, ever, hammer, shall
- Length: 118 words, about 1 min
- Original: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14766>
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Clink, clink, clinkerty clink!  
We begin to hammer at morning's blink,  
And hammer away  
Till the busy day,  
Like us, aweary, to rest shall sink.

Clink, clink, clinkerty clink!  
From labor and care we never will shrink;  
But our fires we'll blow  
Till our forges glow  
With light intense, while our eyelids wink.

Clink, clink, clinkerty clink;  
The chain we'll forge with many a link.  
We'll work each form  
While the iron is warm,  
With strokes as fast as we can think.

Clink, clink, clinkerty clink!  
Our faces may be as black as ink,  
But our hearts are true  
As man ever knew,  
And kindly of all we shall ever think.

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