New-York daily tribune., 1843-07-08


Her starry host aad sunsets purple glow,
That WOO the spin; with celestial dreams,
oa Fancy's wing exul,ingly 20 soar.
Till !ife's harsh fetters clog the heart no more
For The Tribune
A TALE OF A COMET.
ON Letter TO Gentlemen in nis City from Lady et
Virginia.
I'll. evening, and deep in the glowing West
The Sun sink, down TO his golden rest
And the cloudless vault Of celestial blue
Looks the same with us it does with You
For .,ars in th. evening are wont 10 appear
In N. North reckon as well as here;
That IS to say, if the sky Is eieaf.
Be that as 1t may
have nothing TO say,
But proceed with my tale in straightforward way.
ys, then, as told you above, the Sun
wa, taking snooze when his work was done.
And the Planets ALL as in duty bound
Were rolling around
Wi:h pleasant sound
To make the great Po,entates nsp more profound.
Whether their music merry sad,
o. e1quistely good OF decidedly bad
Q. made up Of coutralto, or tenor, or bass,
Can only be known in the depths OF space
Suffice it to say
They sang on their way
A, iea3t so the learned astronomers say.
IT Is nine of the clock and shooting Star
Gives note Of the hour TO worlds afaf;
IT Is nine Of the clock and steady snorr,
Like waves on the shore
Sill louder and deeper,
Proceeds from the nose OF the royal sleeper
When bark. from without
Comes distan, shout
And mighty sound, through the blue profound
A rushing and crushing,
And smashing and pushing,
A, if all the Planets had got by the ears,
And were pushing each other clean out of their spheres
And Mercury has,ens, with fear on his brow,
To announce 10 the Monarch the cause Of the row.
=, Most Potent and Luminous .-haate, arse
A stranger Comet of fearful size
Is making tracks through our western skies
And if we do NJ stop him, by this and that
We IL be presently knocked into cooked hat.
Another plead is tossed from her sphere,
And the rest Of the sisters quakmg with fear
And had not Orion lodged and missed him,
lie TOO had been lost TO the Solar System,
The Sun uprose with mighty frown,
And put on his fame.coored dressinggown
His seat he took,
With fiery look,
And he hung his nigh,.cap upon hook
" By Jupiter, Venus aud all the crew
This pes,ilent Come, shall dearly us
Disturbing ms thus
With his noise and fuss.
Friend Mercury roll, like veteran stsger
And bring to our presence our Ursa Major.
And summon our Councillors every one
There mus, something b. done
With this of gun,
Or in seme of hi. rrolics he III knock out the Sun.
While thus, over head, all is fear and dsmay
On our own mighty Plane, the deuce is to pay;
For the tail of this Comet, It's said by some,
Is to carry us all 10 kingdom come
Without so much as "by your leave"
To sinners who doubt saints who believe
And balls and routs quite at stand,
And Bibles and Prayer Books in great demand ;
And Churches are rising and Theatres falling.
The chosen SanGs
Are making up linen,
And wicked old sinners
Have given up SHINING;
And terrestrial orbs upraised to spy
Their sister sparklers that deck the sky
And noses Roman and Grecian, aud hook
Aud noses that crook
Have turn.up look,
And pscs are decidedly on The rise
Swift md more swift, the Comets fight
And his fiery tail, each succeeding nght,
Adds new fears to the wild alright
For dark and dread
The rumor has spread
That the end of the world, by researches profound,
Although BY Astronomers deemed TO be found.
The great Parsou Miller has certainly found.
And, wo and distraction
He proves irsction
The before mentioned end will undoubtedly be
Sa the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Three.
grieye to say there opposition
To the holy Nillers divir,e commission:
Obstinate sinners who VIII not see
That the thing IS as plain as the Rule Of Th,er,
But persist in doubling.
And utterly scouting
Both the h,ir man and his prophecy.
The Court OF the Sun sits in solSmn state,
Aud the Planets assemble, little and great,
While high IN the midst, with sullen glare.
The Monsrch looks forth irou bis essy-chair.
IT'S plain to see
That regular spree
Awaits the Comets delinquency;
For nothing in Heaven, the earth or the deep,
Makes body mad AS the loss of sleep.
AT Mercuays summons, the rebel app-ars
Before the Sun and his silent spheres.
That is TO say, his head is there,
Bat his latter end is the Lord knows where
Comet, cratic, rebellious and rash
For your pestilent treason
Cans, show any
Why we should no, Immediately settle your hash
Forgetting the sulcs ofpoe decorum,
Invading our sacred ssactum saorum,
Ant. poking ouc heavenly bodies about
Spsak--,Does yonr mother know you re out ~
Now every one knows, bu, especial nodlies,
Ths, Comets are hasty and hot-headci bodies,
Aud oar Comet in this