liMf THE PLANETARY StSTllSf 



The Georgium Sidus next appears, 

 By his amazing distance known ; 

 The lapse of more than eighty years, 

 In his account makes one alone. 



Six moons are his, by Herschel shown, \ 



Herschel of modern times the boast ; j 



Discovery here is all his own, j 

 Another planetary host ! 



And lo ! by astronomic scan, . j 



Three stranger planets track the skies, > 



Part of that high majestic plan, ; 

 Whence those successive worlds arise. 



Next Mars, Piazzi's orb is seen, ] 



Four years six months complete his round ; | 



Science shall renovated beam, | 



And gild Palermo's favoured ground. -' 



Daughters of telescopic ray,  



Pallas and Juno, smaller spheres, ^ 



Are seen near Jove's imperial way, '4 



Tracing the heavens in destined years.  



Comets and fixed stars I see, 



With native lustre ever shine ; 



How great ! how good ! how dreadful ! He, 



In whom life, light, and truth combine. 



Oh ! may I better know his will, 



And more implicitly obey ; 



Be God my friend, my father still. 



From finite — to eternal day. Mangnall. 



Note. The foroojoing rhymes were made, probably, before Vesta 

 was discovered, and some of the facts, relating to the other new pla- 

 nets, not so well ascertained as at present. Ceres is sometimes called 

 Piazzi, after the discoverer. 



