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50
BRISTOL BY GASLIGHT,
FROM ASHLEY HILL.
The stars are quenched, the moon has fled the sky;Say, have they come to sojourn here below?
See, fierce betwixt the Bull and Lion show
Those Twins, whose feet tread down the Galaxy.
Orion threatens here; there Sirius' eye
Burns red, with haste and demon fire aglow;
Where the great monster Cetus flounders low,
Brave Perseus to his fettered love doth fly.
Then was there sudden horror in the stars!
A Comet rushing with a cloud of fire!
A whirr! A shriek! Nay, Heaven can know no wars.
The constellations cannot so conspire.
By roared a train; and clear before my sight
A gas-lit City lay, with noises of the night.
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