 | 1849 - 302 páginas
...Nether Alderley, who died December 25th, 1844, aged 77 years : My sledge and hammer lie declined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice is in the dust all layed, My coal is spent, my iron is gone, My nails are drove, my work is... | |
 | 1925 - 996 páginas
...Huntingdonshire. THOMAS GARDNER. Died, September 30th, 1826, Aged 77 years. My sledge and hammer lie declined. My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct; my forge decayed, My vice in the dust all laid; My coal is spent, my iron is gone, My Nails are drove, my work is done;... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 páginas
...Aberystwith, is another to the memory of David Da vies, Blacksmith : " My Sledge and Hammer lay reclined, My Bellows, too, have lost their wind. My Fire's extinct,...in the dust my Vice is laid ; My Coal is spent, my Iron gone, My Nails are drove — my work is done." The following epitaph is transcribed from one of... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 358 páginas
...Aberystwith, is another to the memory of David Davies, Blacksmith : " My Sledge and Hammer lay reclined, My Bellows, too, have lost their wind, My Fire's extinct,...in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my Iron gone, My Nails are drove — my work is done." The following epitaph is transcribed from one of... | |
 | 1894 - 868 páginas
...hammer lie recliu'd, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire extinct, my forge decayed, Aud in tho dust my vice is laid, My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is doue." We wished and hoped that the sturdy old smith had regard to something... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1855 - 282 páginas
...though it does not appear among his published writings : — "My anvil and my hammer He declined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct,...in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron is gone, My last nail driven, and my work is done. '' Blind Abraham," who rang the curfew, and... | |
 | George Willis - 1856 - 320 páginas
...Sledge and Hammer lyee declind, My Bellows too have lost their wind, My Fire's extinct, my Forge decaid And in the dust my Vice is laid. My Coal is spent, my Iron's gone, My Naills are drove, my Work is done. In Frindsbury church yard, near Rochester, are the following lines... | |
 | Epitaphs, Augustus John Cuthbert HARE - 1856 - 86 páginas
...hammer lie reclin'd ; My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinguish'd, forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My last nail's driven. — my work is done. Fiiiit coronal opat." Lincoln. " UNDEBNEATH... | |
 | 1857 - 402 páginas
...BLACKSMITH. MY sledge and hamtrrer lie reclined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; T&yfire 's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal ia spent, my iron 's gone ; My nails are drove, my work is done. THE KING IN A SQUABBLE. A RECRUITING-SERGEANT,... | |
 | George Measom - 1859 - 592 páginas
...back of the church, erected over the tomb of a blacksmith — " My sledge and hammer lie reclined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct,...in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done. " Musing over this uncouth rhyme, and admiring the... | |
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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... 
