Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts |
 |
 |
|
FIRE, &c. |
 | Pretty Lessons in Verse |  |
FIRE, &c.
That ignis is fire, and flamma a flame,And fumus the smoke which comes from the same,
And ashes are cinis, I'd have you remember:
And as to favilla, it means a hot ember.
A hearth is called focus, and scholars will mark
That fulgor means brightness, scintilla a spark;
Black soot is fuligo, and follis the bellows,
And heat is called calor, my good little fellows;
And ardor means burning, from which we receive
Our English word ardour, I really believe.
| Pretty Lessons in Verse | |