 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 done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at...  Over Fen and Wold - 202 psl.autoriai: James John Hissey - 1898 - 447 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
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...epitaph is inscribed to one of these sons of the mighty Vulcan, an old patriarch of the village : " My sledge and hammer lie reclined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my coal decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My days are spent, my glass is run, My nails are drove,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 - 330 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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... | |
 | Scotch haggis - 1829 - 436 psl.
...CHURCH-YARD OF GREENOCK. My sledge and hammer both declined, My bellows too have lost their wind, Myjire's extinct my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid, My coals are spent my iron is gone, My nails are drove my work is done. ON JOHN BELL. John Bell lived... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1830 - 210 psl.
...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 is done, JULY 8. —Since I was... | |
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