“The following lines...”
Date
2-1-1812
Newspaper
Virginia Herald
Page and Column
Page 4, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Fredricksburg, Virginia
Serial Number
1097
Abstract
Article that contains a short poem about the Comet of 1811
Transcript
The following lines are copied from the Connecticut Mirror. The ingenuity displayed in this address to the Comet, and in the Comet's answer, will be acknowledged, even by those who may severely reprehend the insinuation thrown out by that harmless and commiserating stranger:-- From a Correspondent.<.center> THE DEPARTING COMET. ECCENTIC stranger! tell us why: You came so near, yet pass'd us by? Had you been fraught with vengeful ire, You might have set our world on fire. Methinks I hear the Comet say - "I knew your fears, and kept away; "No little world will I alarm, "Or do the unoffending harm.- "Let Rodgers tell how brave he felt, "When firing on the Little Belt!!"
Recommended Citation
"“The following lines...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 1064.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/1064
