 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1881 - 838 páginas
...churchwarden, who died April l?th, 1795. It runs thus :— "My sledge and hammer lie declined, My bellows they have lost their wind. My fire's extinct — my forge...the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent — my irons gone, My nails are driven, my work is done. My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, My soul well... | |
 | William Ferguson (of Kinmundy.) - 1881 - 208 páginas
...in this churchyard over the remains of a blacksmith : — " My sledge and hammer lie declined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct; my forge decayed • My shovel in the dust is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone ; My nails are drove, my work is... | |
 | 1881 - 556 páginas
...reclined, My bellow's pipe has lost its wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed. And in the dnst my vice is laid, My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done." But, as the Rev. Thomas F. Ravenshaw (who has quoted this inscription... | |
 | John Potter Briscoe - 1883 - 172 páginas
...: — My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's exhausted, forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid, My coal is spent, and I am gone, My last nail's drove, my work is done. An earlier version occurs in the churchyard at... | |
 | John Potter Briscoe - 1883 - 168 páginas
...: — My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's exhausted, forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid, My coal is spent, and I am gone, My last nail's drove, my work is done. An earlier version occurs in the churchyard at... | |
 | 1884 - 186 páginas
...supplied to us hy the same Correspondent (" DFB"):— My Anvil and Hammer are declined , My Itellows, too, have lost their wind, My Fire's extinct, my Forge decayed, And in the dust my Vice is laid, My Coals are spent, my Iron is gone, My Nails are drove, my work is done. SOOTH BEMFLEET (1728). Though... | |
 | George K. Stanton - 1884 - 282 páginas
...years— My sledge and hammer lie reclin'd, My bellows too have lost its wind ; My fire's extinguished, forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My last nail drove, my work is done. The schools, which are built on a commanding site, were erected in 1870,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1884 - 326 páginas
...1786: " My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's exhausted, forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, and I am gone, My last nail's drove, my work is done. " In the town, on the north side of Park Street,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1884 - 390 páginas
...and is said to be the composition of the poet Hayley) : — " My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice all in the dust is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My last nail's driven, my work is... | |
 | Karl Philipp Moritz - 1886 - 218 páginas
...which on account of its singularity, I here copy and send you. " My sledge and anvil lie declined, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My coals are spent, my iron 's gone, My nails are drove: my work is done." Many of these epitaphs closed... | |
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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... 
