THE CARPENTER.

How many things the carpenter makes!
What should we do without him?

| See where he whistles and works at his bench,
While the shavings tumble about him.

First from the forests, thick and high,
Comes the fragrant wood,

Which for timber first is cut,
Dragged from where it stood.
Then ‘tis sawn for joists and planks,

And as lumber goes,
Fitted for most useful things,
As the Carpenter shows.

 

 

How he measures, planes and saws,
Smoothes and fits and glues
Into windows, sashes, doors,
All the things we use,
For our houses snug and warm
Where we live secure from storm.