After reading the lines "His brow is wet with honest sweat, / He earns whate'er he can," readers are likely to view the blacksmith as .

industrious

courageous

pious

intelligent

The correct answer is: industrious.

Explanation:

From the lines above, we can conclude that the blacksmith is industrious and hardworking because the author says he is giving his best and putting all his efforts to earn anything (whatever he can). The blacksmith doesn't want to borrow from anyone, as he is an honest person, capable of earning enough to survive, without owing anything to anyone.

The Village Blacksmith is a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in  1840. The poem describes the life on a blacksmith and his importance to the village society, by representing him as a persistent and hard-working man, in spite of bad events and tragedies in his life.