Poet's Corner. ODE TO THE COMET.
(Melbourne Puneh.J "Wonderful stranger, healthy, fresh and fiery, You're on us bounced Quite unaSnouneed' By any sort of almanack or diary, Where hare you been These three last centuries — upon the spin ? Shirking through the sky ; ; **My eye ! To think last time earth saw your face so jolly Was in the days of sanguinary Molly. And here you are, as fresh as any colt, And doubtless will observe, as did Ben Bolt, Considerable changes meet the view Between the ancient matters and the new. How long do you stay — Is't true, as rumour speak, - Ye mean to disappear within a week? If so, we may As well just have at once our little say. How long hare you been teai'ing Through boundless space, incontinently searing Whole worlds in your sky-rocketfy career ? Most venerable comet, sir, ormadain, 'Tis not .absurd. ... ■ To think you might have stirred Some speculation in the soul of Adam Respecting you, my incandescent stranger, Whether you heralded good luck or danger, Pray, did our great forefather make remarks "About ymxr vast expenditure of sparks,, Your most amazing Continuous prodigality of blazing ? ; In hiß mind's eyes Depict your heavenly size ? And did you dwell within his memory's ken,. When in. three hundred years you come again ?
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 64, 11 December 1858, Page 5
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214Poet's Corner. ODE TO THE COMET. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 64, 11 December 1858, Page 5
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