Versos English William Cullen Bryant A Meditation On Rhode-Island Coal.

English poem

A Meditation On Rhode-Island Coal.

by (1794–1878)

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Decolor, obscuris, vilis, non ille repexam Cesariem regum, non candida virginis ornat Colla, nec insigni splendet per cingula morsu. Sed nova si nigri videas miracula saxi, Tunc superat pulchros cultus et quicquid Eois Indus litoribus rubr' scrutatur in alg'.