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A collection of scots poems on several occasions

by the late Mr. Alexander Pennecuik, Gent. And Others
 

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On a Blacksmith.

My sledge and hammer's both declin'd;
My bellows too have lost their wind;
My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd,
And in the dust my vise is laid;
My coal is spent, my iron's gone,
My nails are drove, my work is done.