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FAMOUS SONGS
beaux—Toujours, jamais! Jamais, toujours! Et pendant ces effroyables revolutions, un re-prouve s'ecrie, Quelle heure est-il ? et la voix d'un autre miserable lui repond, "L'Eter-nite!"'"
, The " Village Blacksmith" was written when he was at Cambridge, where the particular black-smith's smithy and spreading chestnut tree stood. 1879 the children of Cambridge presented the et with an easy chair made out of the wood of
,1 is tree. Longfellow's great-grandfather, by the way, was a blacksmith, and opposite the house at Gorham stood a blacksmith's shop where the horses were shod, and where the future poet as a child often played. In writing to his father about the lyric, he alludes to it " as a kind of ballad on a blacksmith which you may consider, if you please, as a song in praise of your ancestor at Newbury." The song was set to music by W. H. Weiss the great singer, find made an instantaneous success. W. H. Weiss, who held a high position in the English operatic world, was born 1820, and died 1867. A musical play by E. C. Dunbar, called " The Merry Blacksmith," founded on the song, was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, September 23rd, 1893. |
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