Figure D30 TINDER

Down to a cellar, filled with a bracing air,

Crisp, as when a child dashes a stone

Down upon boulders and the sparks leap where

Rock gnashes against rock: here flints are shown

Immur’d in lime, knobbed like shards of bone,

Named PARAMOUDRA on Hibernia’s shores,

Fire’s father, which was in ages grown

In ancient seas. So Nature blindly stores

Resources for mankind in humble madrepores.