 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
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 276 páginas
...epitaph of William Steel, a blacksmith, in the churchyard — ' My sledge and 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... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 280 páginas
...epitaph of William Steel, a blacksmith, in the churchyard — ' My sledge and 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... | |
 | Susan Darling Safford - 1895 - 56 páginas
...look 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, 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... | |
 | 1895 - 610 páginas
...anything strong. " A blacksmith's epitaph at Ipswich, Suffolk : " My hammer and anvil I have declin'd. My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge is decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid." Epitaph on an ignorant sot : " Five letters bis life... | |
 | 1873 - 880 páginas
...Gloucestershire ; and of Houghton, Hunts, there is to be found the well-known blacksmith's epitaph : — 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Archer Philip Crouch - 1900 - 138 páginas
...1768, and whose monument bears the following lugubrious inscription : — " My sledge and hammer hath 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's gone, My last nail's driven, my work is... | |
 | Herbert Winckworth Tompkins - 1902 - 384 páginas
...Elliott, clerk and smith of the parish, who died in 1795 : — " 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... | |
 | Frederic William Unger - 1904 - 216 páginas
...on thee. DB. ABEL EVANS, circa 1700. Over the grave of a Shropshire blacksmith : My sledge and anvil lie declined, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my body's laid : My coal is out, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work... | |
 | Henry Rand Hatfield - 1904 - 518 páginas
...the tomb of one William Braithwaite, blacksmith, who died in 1757: 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 bones are laid ; My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is... | |
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