 | Epigrams, English - 1806 - 274 pages
...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 - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...bellows have quite 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, 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 pages
...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. My fire-dried corpse here lies at rest, My soul, smoke-like, soars to be blest. A whimsical Epitaph, taken jrom a Stone... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...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... | |
 | Collection - 1821 - 336 pages
...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. 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,... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1822 - 382 pages
...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. 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,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 330 pages
...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... | |
 | Poetry - 1827 - 158 pages
...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,...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 - Church history - 1829 - 770 pages
...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 - English wit and humor - 1836 - 266 pages
...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.... | |
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My sledge and hammer lie reclin'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. 
