For the Wilmingtonian.
THE COMET.
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Astronomers all,
Attend to the call,


Your science and skill to extend;
With glasses to view,
And Chronometers true


Adjust them with care commend.
Along with you bring
Some Congruent thing,


With head as clear as Newton;
A Raddi and Sign,
With a Tangent combine,


Thus skill'd in the science ofmotion.
In readiness be-
Says one, two, or three


At four o'clock in the morning; .
Through air, clear and bright,
You'll see without light,


Shouldno clouds in the Eastward be form


ing,
A COMET, with Tail
AS long as whale,


His muclus surrounded with light;
A stranger indeed,
Of eccentrical breed


Who's visible only by night.
To this stranger is due,
Such attention from you


AS knowledge from whence and from


where;


The distance he's run,
And if bound to the sun,


Pray tell US how soon he'll be there.
And on his return,
would have you to learn


The distance he means for to go;
That so you may find,
Fvou're SO incnn'd,


The round of his orbit you know.
And then you can tell,
think very well,


When he means of returning to view;
All this TO explain,
With the length ofhis train,
Is surely expected from you.
Close by you will find,
In a space so conhn'd,


trio o Planets so rare:
You'll scarce ever see,
AS many as three,


With Comet full view in the air.
Venus I'll name,
Of Mars say the same,


With Jupiter all in line;
Near together you'll see
Thodstsnt they be,


As Astronomers all can divine.
A sight then so rare,
Set with briliants in air.


You never have seen such before;
Up then my boys,
And taste of the Joys


Astronomers want nothing more. j.