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214 Thro' depths of ether; coasts unnumber'd Worlds, Of more than solar glory; doubles wide Heav'n's mighty cape; and then revisits earth, From the long travel of a thousand years."

The quotation given on the title-page of this volume is the first stanza of a poem published in the Illustrated London News of March 25, 1843, concerning the great Comet of 1843. Some other stanzas deserve reproduction:—

Another poet took up the running in a subsequent number of the same newspaper (April 22, 1843):—