Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-27
Our Young Folks.
4 TALE or A COMET.

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WE had seen the streaming meteors' light,
With their trails Of fire, the autumn night,
And talked Of falling 8ky-rOcks hurled
From some lOng-since exploded world;
Of comets frisking among the stars
With tails like fiery trains Of cars:
And asked, "ShOuld the reckless engineer
OF some rakish comet steer
Crashing into our atmosphere,
How would tho planets shell resist him?"
Then we cOnversed Of the solar system,
And lunar men;
And Doctor Ben
Brought out his globe, at hRlf-pRst ten,
And lectured, giving conclusive reasons
For tides, eclipses, climes and seasons;
I'll, weary at last, went 20 bed,
With a tumble Of wonderful things in my
head
Moons and comets and meteorites,
Globes and circles and polar nights.
And there lay thinking,
And drOWsily Winking
AT something's ray-thro' my bed-ourtains
Too bright for star, and growing still
Making the moon.lighted chamber yet lighter,
Which very much astOnished the writer!
gazed from the easement,
And wondered, with eVer-increasing amaze
ment
What the look of alarm on the Moons frown-
ing face meant. .r... .....
For there was the Moon and, strange to say,
There, too, was the Earth, Just over the way,
Like the Doctors globe, or huge balloon,
FORTY times larger, perhaps, than the Moon,
All covered with circles, and looming in
spaee
The There were groups upon It, and every face,
Telescopes at the sky were pointed;
ana there, with a terrible rushing and hum
ming
And Kissing of breath, was a Comet a-ooming!
n IOF1fr md ca and ma
~ II grew every moment longer and queerer!
nntil made out such comical chap,
In red-hannel coat with very long flap,
Hls Ei3d nngers IN mttens, MS cnin In a wrap,
LlAe IOurlSI PFephreu ZOE very cOlu suap'
On, on ne sped, through the regions Of space,
with very snort legs at very long pace,
His well-illed knapsack lashed on his back,
pack,
Entangled far OF in the Pleiades,
On, on ne came,
with nose like flame,
80 RED was sure the fellOW d been drinking
(Hls canteen was empty, knew by the clink-
ing;
" ana What can SOBER Comet be thinking,
lcried, mot to see there, plain as the day,
Ihe Earth, ike a target, hung right IN his
Way?"
The groups were beginning to hurry about,
And hustle and hustle and signal and shout
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He put up his mead with stupehed stare,
and says ne, " declare!
A., -. NO, WASH aware!
And m going at such deuce OF rate
I'd stop II could, but fear it's too late!
Bless my stars! here am !" He had just time
to stoop, ..E. .t-
swoOp,
AS circus rider dives through hoopI
With crash, /
and smash,
and a roar as OF thunder,
.. 1t quivered,
And shiyered'
And flew asunder;
The Moon, looking down, shed tragical tears;
While Winking hard and holding his ears,
Wheeled round, swore loud, and ruefully eyed
The ruin; sneezed two or three times; then
drew
His long tail after him down the blue.
....... ........... .r
"Heayens and earthI what have donel
This does beat everything under the sunI
don't care the wink of a stffr" said he
"For all the damage done to me" D
Feeling his nose, and then with q firt
Carefully brushing away tae dirt
From his coat and its stained and draggled
SKIRT
"But Dnk at this dear little, queer little |
pIanetl
I'VE done the business for her, and van, it
Is quite too badl The fairest of creatures
HOW we'll remember her pleasant features