Monday, April 5, 2010
A Meditation On Rhode-Island Coal Comments
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I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heaped
With Newport coal, and as the flame grew bright
--The many-coloured flame--and played and leaped,
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7/20/2025 5:44:11 AM # 1.0.0
I had a geology professor tell us that Hell has been defined as a place hot enough for Rhode Island coal to burn! And apparently they had trouble in the 19th century with it, as Bryant makes clear. But he found it useful, and wrote a witty riposte to those who criticized it.