Read full poem →traveller, and would not let him go. The further west I walked, the
thicker the squalor and slag heaps, and the presence of St. Francis
seemed withdrawn from me, though I had been faithful in my fashion.
Dictionary Entry
Waste material from a coal mine
Origin
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Common Phrases
. slagheaps slagcement slagslag furnaceslag basicslag moltenslag iron
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Poetry examples for “slag”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In this broad Earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,