 | 1806 - 274 psl.
...Venus , and a Grace. CXXXII. EPITAPH ON A BLACKSMITH. My sledge and hammer lie declin'd, cxxx. My <;oal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done, My fire-dry'd corpse lies here at rest, My soul, smoak-like, is soaring to be blest. CXXXIII. TO SALLY... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 psl.
...tuat my guest affect my slender cheer. AI EPITAPH OK A BLACKSMITH. MY stfdge and hammer lie declia'd, My bellows have quite lost their wind, My fire's extinct,...iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done, My fire-dry'd corps lies here at rest, My sou), smoke-like, is soaring to be blest. RESIGNATION. MY sickly... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 psl.
...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,...nails are drove, my work is done. My fire-dried corpse here lies at rest, My soul, smoke-like, soars to be blest. A whimsical Epitaph, taken jrom a Stone... | |
 | 1822 - 382 psl.
...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,...nails are drove, my work is done. My fire-dried corpse here lies at rest, My soul, smoke-like, soars to be blest. ON WEST WAITE, 'Son of the Rev. Thomas Waite,... | |
 | 1825 - 342 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1827 - 158 psl.
...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...work is done. My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest: soul, smoke-like, soars to be blest107 THE FIRST PAIR. ADAM alone could not be easy, So he. must have... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 770 psl.
...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. This piece of originality has, however, been copied, and may be seen at Westham, in Essex. S1XTUS THE... | |
 | Joe Miller - 1836 - 266 psl.
...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, My soul, smoke like, is soaring to be blest. On a Monument intended to be erected for Mr. Rowe, by hit Widow.... | |
 | 1857 - 830 psl.
...hammer lie nclin'd, My bellows too hare lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, My rise Is in the dust all laid. My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work Is done, My firfrdrlod corpse lies here at rest, My soul, smoke-like, roars to be blest." BUKNS'S ADVICE TO A PAINTER.—... | |
 | 1843 - 744 psl.
...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 grave writer himself, returning to his dust, finds an apt memorial: " Hie jacet Rob. Hudson... | |
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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 is done. 
