Words:
- iron
- eyelids
- forge
- intense
- clinkerty
- shrink
- labor
- hammer

Lesson:
- 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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