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THE UERSCHEUAX TELESCOPE SONG l 



R^uiemof the Porty-feet RdUetor at Slough, to t* rang on the 

 New Year's Kve, 1839-40, by Papa, Mama, Madam*, and all 

 the Little Bodies in the tube thereof assembled : 



In the old Telescope's tube we ait, 

 1 the shades of the part around us II 

 requiem ting we, with shout and with din, 



While the old year goes out and the new one 



of Youth and Ptrpiu. 



Merrily, merrily, let us all sing, 



And make the old Telescope rattle and ring. 



11 fifty years did he laugh at the storm, 



the bloat could not shake his majestic form ; 

 v prone he lies where he once stood high, 

 And searched the deep heavens with his broad bright eye. 

 Merrily, merrily, &c. 



- are wonders no living wight hath seen, 

 Inn this hollow have pictured been ; 

 Which mortal record can ne'er recall, 

 And are known to Him only who makes them all. 

 Merrily, merrily, Ac. 



re watched our father the wintry Night, 

 And his gaxe hath been fed with pre- Adamite light ; 

 While planets above him in mystic* dance 

 Seat down on hia toils a propitious glance. 

 Merrily, merrily, Ac, 



> Weld, /tofery </(A Royal Soetr'i 

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