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 be bright and busy While hoaxed astronomers look up and stare From tall observatories, dumb and dizzy, To see a Squib in Cassiopeia's Chair! A Serpent wriggling into Charles's Wain! A Roman Candle lighting the Great Bear! A Rocket tangled in Diana's train, And Crackers stuck in Berenice's Hair!

Ode to Madame Hengler, Firework-maker to Vauxhall By THOMAS HOOD.