284 Geological Poems 



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MORAL®. 



Learn hence, ye flinty hearted rocks, 



Your burthens all to bear, 

 Lest Jove should fix you in the stocks, 



Or toss you in the air. 



GEOLOGICAL COOKERY. 



To make Granite. 



Of Felspar and Quartz a large quantity take. 

 Then pepper with Mica, and mix up and bake. 

 This Granite for common occasions is good ; 

 But, on Saint-days and Sundays, be it understood, 

 If with bishops and lords in the state room you dine. 

 Then sprinkle with Topaz, or else Tourmaline, 



N- B. The proportion of the ingredients may be varied ad 

 libitum ; — it will keep a long time. 



To make Porphyry. 



Let Silex and Argil be well kneaded down. 

 Then colour at pleasure, red, grey, green, or brown ; 

 When the paste is all ready, stick in here and there 

 Small crystals of Felspar, both oblong and square^. 



To make Pudding-stone. 



To vary your dishes, and shun any waste. 

 Should you have any left of the very same paste, 

 Itou may make a plum-pudding; but then do not stint 

 The quantum of Pebbles — Chert, Jasper, or Flint. 



8 Moral. The friend to whom this poem was first shown in 1811, sug- 

 gested the propriety of annexing a Moral. In compliance with general cus- 

 tom, he followed the advice. It would, however have been more consonant 

 to his owa modesty, to have left the moral application to the reader's sagaci- 

 ty, than to have thus obtruded it on his notice. 



1 This is the old-fashioned receipt for making: Porphyry, used by our 

 gr?.i)dmothers : viz. they made the paste first, and stuck iu the Felspar af- 

 terwards. This aacthod is easy and plain : but in the most approved mod* 

 em receipts, the ino^rc-dients are all mixed together at first, and the felspar 

 is left to crystallize while the paste is hardening. 



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