 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...  Joe Miller's Jests: With Copious Additions - Página 218por Joe Miller - 1836 - 248 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edmund Routledge - 1864 - 168 páginas
...tombstone is broken off at the place where the date was : — z " My hammer and my anvil lie declined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire 's...in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron is gone, My last nail driv'n, and my work is done." In the church of East Hucknall, Derbyshire,... | |
 | 1868 - 510 páginas
...On a smith — " 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 fuel's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, My soul,... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1869 - 334 páginas
...writings : — My anvil and my hammer lie declined, 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 is gone, My last nail driven, and my work is done. "Blind Abraham," who rang the curfew, and who... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 páginas
...Lincoln : My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's extinguished, forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron gone, My last nail driven, my work is done. Finis coronal opus. Walking through the old churchyard... | |
 | Epitaphiana - 1873 - 214 páginas
...wind ; My fire is spent, my forge decay'd, My vice is on 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. 21. On an Italian : — I was well, Wished... | |
 | William Fairley - 1875 - 208 páginas
...; My fire is spent, my forge decay' d, My vice is on 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. 21. On an Italian : — I was well, Wished... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1875 - 192 páginas
...Stephen beat Time, now Time 's beat Stephen. In Ashton Churchyard, Birmingham, on a blacksmith : — My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too,...in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron 's gone, My nails are drove, my work is don-. In North Berwick Churchyard, on a ploughman : —... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1878 - 402 páginas
...wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, 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 lies here at rest, My soul, smoke-like, is soaring to be blest. The living of Hadleigh is a rectory, and the rectory-house is one... | |
 | William George Fretton - 1879 - 398 páginas
...1787, aged 42 :— 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 gone, My nails are drove, my work is done. In the Chancel of Weston-under-Wetherley Church is... | |
 | William Andrews - 1880 - 342 páginas
...inappropriate : — 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...coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, ray work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.... | |
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