 | Jno George Shaw - 1889 - 412 páginas
...year of his age. My anvil and my hammer are declined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My last nail driven, and my work is done. The endowment of St. James's originated in the... | |
 | Charles Henry Fielding - 1893 - 328 páginas
...— My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fires are burnt, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone; My nails are drove, my work is done. WILLIAM SMITH, of this parish, blacksmith. Another, to Mr. John and... | |
 | William Hume Elliot - 1893 - 476 páginas
...Hammer lie declin'd, My Bellows too have lost their wind, My Fire is extinct, and my Forge decay'd, And in the Dust my Vice is laid, My Coal is spent, my Iron is gone, My last Nail driven, and my Work is done." 1846 (An Octogenarian) " HP was an affectionate... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1894 - 350 páginas
...The gravestone of a blacksmith has the following epitaph : — My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My fire's extinct,...forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid, My coals are spent, my irons gone, My nails are drove, my work is done. A visit was then paid to Moyse's... | |
 | 1894 - 434 páginas
..."My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire 's extinguished, forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, The last nail's driven — my work is done."1 1 It occurs in Abton Churchyard, near Birmingham,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 276 páginas
...hammer lie reclin'd ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, The nails are driven, my work is done.' Cyril Jackson, the famous Dean of Christ Church,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 280 páginas
...hammer lie reclin'd ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, The nails are driven, my work is done.' Cyril Jackson, the famous Dean of Christ Church,... | |
 | Susan Darling Safford - 1895 - 56 páginas
...on thee. NORTON. A blacksmith's epitaph composed by himself. My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's extinct,...forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My iron spent, my coal is gone, My nails are drove — my work is done. BROCKTON. Indulgent world I bid... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1898 - 510 páginas
...journey, the often-quoted epitaph to a blacksmith, beginning : — My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's extinct,...my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. This familiar inscription has been stated by guidebook compilers to be found in this churchyard and... | |
 | Susan Darling Safford - 1898 - 84 páginas
...composed by himself.) My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire 's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My iron spent, my coal is gone, My nails are drove — my work is done. SS Wayland. Here lies the body... | |
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My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at... 
