I don't know if the Deacon's Masterpiece (Wonderful One Hoss Shay) is still studied in school. Hope so. An excerpt:
So the Deacon inquired of the village folk
Where he could find the strongest oak,
That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke, —
That was for spokes and floor and sills;
He sent for lancewood to make the thills;
The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees,
The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese,
But lasts like iron for things like these;
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Deacon%27s_Masterpiece
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