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
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...righteous man to punish sin and folly. Epitaph on a Blacksmith. MY sledge and hammer lie declin'd, My bellows too have lost their wind My fire's extinct, my forge decay 'd, My vice is in the dust all laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my... | |
| Scotch haggis - 1822 - 344 páginas
...Heaven, Ou the ]8th of February 1587,— aged 46ON A RLACKSMITHMy 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 irons gone, My nails are drove,. my... | |
| 1822 - 382 páginas
...Dispers'd the rest—what more could Sampson do? j ON A BLACKSMITH. My sledge and hammer lie declin'd, My bellows too have lost their wind; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, My vice is in the dust all laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work... | |
| 1825 - 342 páginas
...bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice it in the dust now laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done. This piece of originality has, however, been copied, and may be seen at Westham, in Essex. S1XTUS THE... | |
| 1825 - 330 páginas
...royal horse-guards, who died June the fifth, 1811, aged thirty-one. My sledge and hammer He declin'd, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice is in the dust now laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done.... | |
| 1827 - 158 páginas
...four scolds — and the session is ended. EPITAPH ON A BLACKSMITH. MY sledge and hammer lie declin'd ; My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd ; My vice is in the dust all laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 770 páginas
...royal horse-guards, who died June the fifth, 1811, aged thirty-one. My sledge and hammer lie declin'd, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice is in the dust now laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done.... | |
| William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 páginas
...it.* IN NEWINGTON CHURCH-YARD, ON JAMES BLACKBURN, A BLACKSMITH. My sledge and hammer lie declin'd, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge deeay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are driven, my... | |
| Henry Lee - 1830 - 210 páginas
...lies in the church-yard at WestHam, near London. EPITAPH. My .SiV'V'1 ;""' Hammer lie reclined, Mr 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... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1841 - 318 páginas
...elegiac poetry. " To the Memory of Charles Dixm, SMITH AND FARRIER. "My sledge and hammer lie 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 if spent, my iron gone, My last nail's driven—... | |
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