Genre:

Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Aeronautics, Travel, Astronomy, Extra-Terrestrial Life

    Urges his 'dearest' to dress so that with her skirt 'inflated' with 'gas from the Works', they can 'fly to the Moon'. Observes that the lunar trip cannot happen owing to the absence of 'atmospheric air' on the moon and warns that on attempting to go there 'we soon, / Should be smothered without respiration'. Ponders the question 'How breathes the Man in the Moon', and supposes that he must live under a different 'state of things'.