 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...  Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities - Página 41por Edwin Waugh - 1855 - 260 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1862 - 282 páginas
...places, and is said to be the composition of the poet Hayley) : — " My sledge and hammer lio reeiined, My bellows too have lost their wind. My fire's extinct, my forge decayed. My vice all in the dust is laid; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My last nail's driven, my work is... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 páginas
...Kershaw, a blacksmith, interred in Rochdale churchyard : — My hammer and my 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,... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1864 - 168 páginas
...: — z " My hammer and my anvil lie declined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire 's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice...; 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, in memory of one of the Duke... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1864 - 284 páginas
...places, and is said to be the composition of the poet Hayley) :" My sledge and hammer He reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind. My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vlce all In the dust is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, Uy la« nail's driven, my work Is... | |
 | 1868 - 510 páginas
...Made it his business still to look for death." On a smith — " My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct,...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
...attributed to the pen of Tim, though it does not appear among his writings : — My anvil and my hammer lie declined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ,...Abraham," who rang the curfew, and who used to imitate the chimes of Rochdale old church, in a wonderful way, for the lads at the Grammar School, could lead a... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Mason (of Ryde.) - 1872 - 178 páginas
...the epitaph on Charles Dixon, a farrier and blacksmith, reads " My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind. My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice all in the dust is laid. My coal is spent, my iron gone, My last nail's driven, my work ie... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1875 - 192 páginas
...Churchyard, near Manchester, on the grave of a blacksmith : — My anvil and my hammer lie declin'd, My bellows too have lost their wind. My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is lay'd. My coals are spent, my irons gone, My nails are drove, my... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 732 páginas
...sledge and hammer lies declined, My bellows pipes have lost its wind ; My forge's extinct, my tires decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron is gone, Mv nails are drove, mv work is Done." What struck me as not less curious was the following handbill,... | |
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