This page has been validated.
18
THE BLACK MAN'S LAMENT.

BOILING AND COOLING THE SUGAR.
Our task is next to catch the juice
In leaden bed, soon as it flows;
And instant, lest it spoil for use,
It into boiling vessels goes.
Nor one alone: four vessels more
Receive and clear the sugar-tide.
Six coolers next receive the store;
Long vessels, shallow, wooden, wide.