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JLINES ADDRESSED TO THE COMET . Ilxu st riov » traveller hail ! to poet poor , Pent on this little warring world of dirt , Deign thy celestial ear ; and halt awhile Art thy bright course along the milky
For moral converse . Dost thou with dread and philosophic haf : e Rush From a system of -so many ills , Ere thy bright form in astronomic eye , Scarce claims acknowledgment ? jSad ch ¥ n # srhere Dread visitant ! since last thy probing
eye . >• ' - ¦ LookM ott our little family of worlds L Another race has risen , bf nature dire , ; 3 > ark ^ aiffd inalighant as the soul of sin ; And all the goodly surface of this earth , Is now on * field of masacre and war ! As , in thy flaming course magnificent , Laving thy sides in heaven ' s primeval
Thou passest worlds , say , hastth © u seen , Aught comp a rable with this on which I dwell ?—In steaming clouds benight , half bid in shade , Its very womb disgorging flame and smoke :
Vcxt in it 9 physical arii moral state ;—Tempest an 4 fire on sea , and death on shore ! Strange messenger ! in heavenly fire begirt , I wonder not thou furriest in thy course Tp visitxhasjer realms . But much T marvel , an # have ponder * d
oft , On what the beings arc who dwell witfvthee : Now basking in the ardent solar bla ^ e , Whose fires , to one large calcined cloud would give Millions of worlds like this , and , in less
time Than in thy rapid flight thou measur e st " out Thy tail ' s diameter ;—then darting forth To cold and solitary realms , where light , F eeble and broken as our lunar ray y
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When crossing clouds ab-orb her silver stream , Plays dimly on one endless solitude : - Where sun can never rise , and freezing night Dwells brooding on eternaf barrejnhess f
Strange race I wot I and rriucfe " 1 crave to know , How in their winter they contrive to live , Who such a sultry sammer can encltfre ? Say , nature ' s monitor , whose post may be . - ¦ .
To sweep some district of creation ' s . bounds , ^ And watchman-like , proclaim that all goes well ;;—Say , do the Beauties which may grace thy orb , Like ours , their minds to slavish fashions bend ? -
Say , do thy Lovers sigh , like ours , for gold , An 4 only smile on fortune and on fools . ? Does mawkish sensibility usurp The glorious name of bland philosoph y % And ignorance , with brazen trumpet , drown The counsels of the wise ?
O I envied orb i if nought of these may vex The blessings of thy wide society , Th $ n would I grieve that thou art . fled
9 u , Andj ill thy visitation of ou ^ sun , Thotj wert not doonfd to cross this world of vice , And leave some lesson of thy happy < laws 1 . Illustrious stranger , hail ! when in thy
course To these dull regions thou again return ' st , Some happier race may view thy lambent flames ; While , every eye that now has hailM thy fires , Shall be for ever closM ! and heavy night , Dark as the sins which visited the age , Shall curtain those who sinn'd . THE OPH 1 LUS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/36/
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