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
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 984 páginas
...Bellows too have lost their Wind ; My Fire's extinct, my Forge decayed, And in the Duet my Vice la laid; My Coal is spent, my Iron's gone, My Nails are drove, my Work Is done. In Illington church-yard, Warwickshire, in memory of William Treen : Poorly Lived, and Poorly Dyed,... | |
| 1863 - 396 páginas
...anvil's low 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 iron's gone, My last nail's driven, my work is done. Another epitaph was upon his own gravestone and might be seen... | |
| 1903 - 520 páginas
...yean. My sledge and hammer lie reclined My hollows, too, have lost their wind My fire Kxtinct, my forgo decayed, And in the dust, my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron's gone, Hy nails are drove, my work is doi.e. Teithiais a hwyliais for heli, mynwent Yw'r man rwyn angori,... | |
| 1889 - 540 páginas
...My sledge and my 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 coronat opus. A few months ago an Englishman... | |
| 1895 - 566 páginas
...— 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, The last nail 's driven— my work U done. and the Archdeacen gives several others. _As... | |
| 1912 - 680 páginas
...My fire 's extinct, my forge decay'd, 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 reat, My soul like smoke is soaring to be blest. GEORGE WHEBBY. Cambridge. EPITAPHS IN THE CATHEDRAL... | |
| 1892 - 376 páginas
...Sledge and hammer lies reclined My Bellows too have lost their wind My fire extinct, my forge decay And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent my iron's done My Nails are drove my life is done. It is л custom in Aberystwyth, and I am told in other parts... | |
| 1891 - 422 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 here lies at rest. My soul, smoke-like, soars to the blest." HERBERT E. NORRIS, St. Ives. 73.— The... | |
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