Punch,  35 (1858), 185.

Canzonet on the Comet

Anon

Genre:

Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Prognostication


    To be sung to the air of 'Little Bo Peep', this song explains that, according to George B Airy, the comet will return in two thousand years time.



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