 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...  The Spell of England - Page 345by Julia de Wolf Addison - 1922 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
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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 pages
...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... | |
 | J. Deck - Bury St. Edmunds (England) - 1821 - 188 pages
...sledge and hammer I've reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coals are spent, my irons gone, My nails are drove, my work is done. On a tombstone, near the broad walk, with trees, on... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1822 - 382 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 330 pages
...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.... | |
 | Poetry - 1827 - 158 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotch haggis - 1829 - 436 pages
...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 in Anandale, (on the... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 770 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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