 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 rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to...  Nelsons' Hand-book to the Isle of Wight ... - Page 155by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1862 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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. This... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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. This... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Lee - Theater - 1830 - 210 pages
...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... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 312 pages
...and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's eitinct, my forge decay'd, My vice all in the dust is laid ; My coal is spent,...iron gone, My last nail's driven— my work is done !" waves for a bass. For one sweet singing-bird with us, I think there are twenty here ; and, included... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 318 pages
...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—... | |
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