 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 382 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Scotch haggis - 1822 - 344 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1825 - 330 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1841 - 318 pàgines
...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—... | |
 | 1843 - 744 pàgines
...mortality. William Clark thus addresses us from the grave:— " 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 voice [sic] is laid; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done:" And the... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1849 - 378 pàgines
...memory of John Henshall, of Nether Alderley, who died Dec. 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 gone, My nails are drove, my work is done,... | |
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My sledge and 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 coals are spent, my iron gone My nails are drove, my work is done My fire-dried corpse here lies at rest My soul... 
