“The Departing Comet”
Date
2-18-1812
Newspaper
Montreal Herald
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 3
Newspaper Location
Montreal, Canada
Serial Number
428
Abstract
Poem talking about the comet of 1811 and comparing it to a nautical incident that involved the ship, Little Belt.
Transcript
THE DEPARTING COMET ECCENTRIC Stranger! tell us why You came so near, yet past'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 tears, and kept away; "No little world will I harm, "Or do the unoffending harm- "Let Rodgers tell how brave he felt, "When firing on the Little Belt!!"
Recommended Citation
"“The Departing Comet”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 421.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/421
