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1731–1802

VII. “GNOMES! YOU then taught volcanic airs to force...

Erasmus Darwin

VII. “GNOMES! YOU then taught volcanic airs to force Through bubbling Lavas their resistless course, O'er the broad walls of rifted Granite climb, And pierce the rent roof of incumbent Lime,

Round sparry caves metallic lustres fling, And bear phlogiston on their tepid wing.

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