Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-05-31
POETRY.
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The sloy.ne md OF The @ and the s's
,,irs; espccialy such OF them ne nav .m,Ss
tune, to attend Professor sil%ss 9; ltssoIifS TOWN
Tar GEoLoGicAL L e; mind
Dear Reader last the mafea OF pnh .ir
shonlJ lsuvo thee tagging ia' ,Ic anal
Wksss iss .on Nth ii" anxious Ss 'siI'.
Er e:, oag NY. of health and mstniehto "'
w.. , .now the hill Of sc'enSo ha'''
= c aa,wIy found and rosy pain,
Co., mo yy,-peJ rocks no more npPa''
MnS Sa, With living crystals all; ,..
t Du " Peia,, while she guides, besuncs,
Al w,cathrs her naughty brow WIN s"''''
III we ara herc-now open tho doo'-
tVhat sparkling showers upon W pour!
Lo! slittsring in one starry nasS
Tho lights OF science and oil gas!
Here bright heap OF crystals lies -
There flash tho gems OF female eyes!
Whose flaming cross.lrct stream 10 'he'"
From batteries the rival SEATS,
Such blaze tho town cannot reinon'o's
Since the greet burning IN Uecemoe''
So ovsrnowSriag IL the sheen,
That hintsparks can no moro % SseIt
But hush the lecturer spesSS-uh1 NJ
Into listupiug silence fall
Ho tells how Sauran monsters run
On earth, before ihs age OF uiaii-
And though thcir fosPils stIew tae stouho'
No trace Of human bones - louIa' .,,r,,
Now--thoush his words are wis'iom,-'hous"
His lips with wit and srnius glow,
Yet what ure words, and What "S oeo>''
yyien pi,t with such jistact'ns svok''-
From creatures xHGer GARTH We mo'e'
10 watch tho living ones, auovo-
He hold. Q rocky fragment hight
We cazo-but thwaI,iny slahcc'hy
the ro!eaRie fire Of Dyes: .
The rock r,ets into cir, aud mes -
.asIarbIe is lime stone" says lie now
Cnr oyes urc some marble pso"-
14nd ,uch is niabasser too
Now necks and arlnS district tho view
From sscornl reefs, /" to coral iils,
Tho mind, despite our efforts, slips
.Is, will iofamo'-that'i school boy Store
L., ewes will burn, knew brtorc-
UOur yas.lghts are produced from coai
No doubl--or now before US roll
Hundreds Of eyes Of cool with iiaino'
TO which, your hydrogen is tame:
seoul lies in strata"-ah how lar
Tn, scoal formation" Of The talE!
DEPOSITED in Rdpy BEDS $500,
IJnon the surflee OF those heads!
Gi)iamonds ore ehareoa'''-Eow they sio"
Ijpop that hand oil driven snow!
1tSnunhiro is clay, thous brishs TO view
But pale 10 yondcr eyes OF otasI q,
sFrom felspar comCs porceain"-
We hear-but still tho gldly brain
To womau-womaa, steals away
That "porcelan OF human clay .
First in our MISUNDERSTANDING fairy:
70 thce all rocks arc Scconddry--
All. what joylcss limo and cad
Our SduriGn predecessors had ::
Condemned 10 walk the gloomy earth,
Ere blooming ,conidn yet bad birth
To pass that dark md dreary whl!a
Without the luxury Of smile!
Their days, loveoss, checrlesS tones--
Their nj Lts unlis GIFTED by gtonee-
Poor things thus hurried on the scene
How dull their "leetnrSs" nnSt have ooeh!
Dear Rcader-if by means like these
If with such zoft, delicious case,
II plunder'd wisdoms precious spoI
Shall we decline the rosy toll!
All, no we'll tread orc long we run, WA
Hard on the heels Of Solomon! N'' :"
singular facobcrvcd md AUTOMATICALLY tho worthy ffo
or himself during his last lecture