Bright-eyed amid a weeping train.

Hope of a lovelier day than this;

Assurance of eternal bliss.

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THE COMET.

THE COMET.

Lone

Thy mission to declare,

Or seraph's burning hair?

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Upheld by powers unseen,

A thousand years between.

Who would not die to see

With waifs and strays like thee!

THE ROCKET.

THE ROCKET.

The

Its arch of stars o'er tower and plain,

And but a worthless wand remain.

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