Were one sedimentary wash.

By and by 'twill be myth and no true thing

What were hills--what was high or was low.

The deuce take their drifting and smoothing;

Hurrah! far eruption I go!'

So he spoke, and to aid him, pro rata,

The brave-hearted Porphyry flew,

The weak-hearted crystalline strata

He scornfully shattered in two.

With flashing and crashing and bellow,