 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 rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to...  The Great North of Scotland Railway. A Guide - Página 28de William Ferguson (of Kinmundy.) - 1881 - 174 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Edwin Waugh - 1869 - 334 páginas
...generally attributed to the pen of Tim, though it does not appear among his writings : — My anvil and my hammer lie declined, 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 is gone, My last nail driven, and my work... | |
 | 1872 - 592 páginas
...bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, My vice is in the dust now laid, My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done." Vol. ii. p. 399. A similar epitaph on a blacksmith is, if I remember rightly, to be found in Aston... | |
 | James Mason (of Ryde.) - 1872 - 178 páginas
...the epitaph on Charles Dixon, a farrier and blacksmith, reads " 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 ie done."... | |
 | William Fairley - 1875 - 208 páginas
...sewn, my pegs are driven, And now I'm on the tramp to heaven. 20. From Houghton Churchyard, Hunts : — My sledge and hammer lie declined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire is spent, my forge decay' d, My vice is on the dust all .laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone,... | |
 | Epitaphiana - 1873 - 214 páginas
...sewn, my pegs are driven, And now I'm on the tramp to heaven. 20. From Houghton Churchyard, Hunts : — My sledge and hammer lie declined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire is spent, my forge decay'd, My vice is on the dust all laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone,... | |
 | George Shaw (publishers.) - 1873 - 166 páginas
...reclined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire 's extinct, my forge decay'd ; My vice all in the dust is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone ; My last nail 's driven ; my work is done." Adjoining the church, there formerly stood a Priory of Cistercian... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1873 - 876 páginas
...My bellow* too have lost their wind; My ire's extinct, ray forge decay'd, And in the dust my ric.e is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are driven, my work is done. And here a coalheaver: Cease to lament his change, ye just ; He 's only gone... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1875 - 192 páginas
...debonair, Bad name, black face, but his life good and fair. In Houghton Churchyard, Huntingdonshire : — My sledge and hammer lie declined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire is spent, my forge decay'd, My vice is on the dust all laid, My coal is spent, my iron gone, My... | |
 | William George Fretton - 1879 - 398 páginas
...blacksmith, in Aston Churchyard, who died in 1787, aged 42 :— 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 gone, My nails are drove, my work is done.... | |
 | George Frederick L. Bampfield - 1880 - 544 páginas
...certain venerable old blacksmith, Sam Kershaw by name, who departed this life in 1810 " My Anvil and my Hammer lie declined, 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 gone, My last Nail driven, and my work all... | |
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