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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Comet
Comets importing change of times and states,Brandish your crystal tresses in the skyAnd with them scourge the bad revolting stars.
Shakespeare.
Lo! from the dread immensity of spaceReturning, with accelerated course,The rushing comet to the sun descends:And as he sinks below the shading earth,With awful train projected o’er the heavens,The guilty nations tremble.
Thomson.
Stranger of Heaven, I bid thee hail!Shred from the pall of glory rivenThat flashest in celestial gale—Broad pennon of the King of HeavenWhate’er portends thy front of fireAnd streaming locks so lovely pale;Or peace to man, or judgments direStranger of Heaven, I bid thee hail.
Hogg.
Hast thou ne’er seen the comet’s flaming light?Th’ illustrious stranger passing, terror shedsOn gazing nations, from his fiery trainOf length enormous, takes his ample roundThrough depths of ether; coasts unnumber’d worlds,Of more than solar glory; doubles wideHeaven’s mighty cape; and then re-visits earth,From the long travel of a thousand years.
Young.
Lone traveller through the fields of air,What may thy presence here portend?Art come to greet the planets fair,As friend greets friend?Whate’er thy purpose, thou dost teachSome lessons to the humble soul;Though far and dim thy pathway reach,Yet still thy goalTends to the fountain of that lightFrom whence thy golden beams are won;So should we turn, from earth’s dark night,To God our sun.
Mrs. Hale.