Excerpt from Poets, Poems, and Rhymes of East Cheshire: Being a History of the Poetry and Song Lore 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 done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.