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" 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 be blest. "
Gleanings from God's Acre: Being a Collection of Epitaphs - Page 27
by John Potter Briscoe - 1883 - 160 pages
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The panorama of wit. Exhibiting the choicest epigrams in the English language

Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...and hammer lie declia'd, My bellows have quite 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 is done, My fire-dry'd corps lies here at rest, My sou), smoke-like, is soaring...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 is done. My fire-dried corpse here lies at rest, My soul, smoke-like, soars...
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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern ...

Epitaphs - 1822 - 382 pages
...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 is done. My fire-dried corpse here lies at rest, My soul, smoke-like, soars...
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Lambeth and the Vatican: Or, Anecdotes of the Church of Rome, of the Refomed ...

Anecdotes - 1825 - 582 pages
...died June the fifth, 1 8 1 1 , 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 piece of originality...
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The Cabinet of Momus: A Choice Selection of Humorous Poems

Poetry - 1827 - 158 pages
...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 is done. My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest: soul, smoke-like, soars to...
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Outlines of Ecclesiastical History: On a New Plan, Designed for Academies ...

Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 770 pages
...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 piece of originality...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 17

Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...hammer lie nclin'd, My bellows too hare lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, My rise Is in the dust all laid. My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work Is done, My firfrdrlod corpse lies here at rest, My soul, smoke-like, roars...
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The Roscoe magazine and Lancashire and Cheshire literary reporter

1849 - 302 pages
...who died December 25th, 1844, aged 77 years : My sledge and hammer lie declined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice is in the dust all layed, My coal is spent, my iron is gone, My nails are drove, my work is done, My fire-dried corpse...
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1849 - 378 pages
...Alderley, who died Dec. 25th, 1844, aged 77 years. My sledge and hammer lie declined, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice is in the dust all layed, My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done, My fire-dried corpse lies...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 pages
...and hammer lie reclin'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 is done. My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, My soul, smoke-like, soars...
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