till not high enough to reach his dear home,
o the naughty star, sorrowing, faded and died.
mall stars in the future should not try to roam;
uspended above, they should be satisfied.
The letters replacing stars are italics, and they will be found to make the following names:
Prologue.—First line, e a e r g i; this, transposed, will give the word Egeria, a primary planet. Second line, a r t h e r e n i e makes Irene and Earth, two planets. Third line, n u a o n t l i, Lunation, applied to a movement of the moon. Fourth line, e a s s d p i, Apsides, also relating to movements of the moon.
First Verse.—First line, n u n a l a r gives Annular, when the sun is totally obscured except a bright ring around a dark body in the centre (Mattison's Primary Astronomy, p. 118). Second, third, and fourth lines, c e a r y h e s g k e m a r n s c e e, Ceres, Hygea, and Mars, planets; and Encke, an astronomer who discovered an apparently oval comet (Mattison, p. 143).
Second Verse.—First line, m b r u a gives Umbra, a part of the moon. Second line, t t a o l, Total, one form of eclipse. Third and fourth lines, o e e m r o e g i a r l l, Galileo, who invented the telescope, and Roemer, a distinguished foreign astronomer.
Third Verse.—First line, a l e d e p i s, Pleiades, a cluster of stars. Second line, l l s e a l s, Lassell, who discovered a satellite of Neptune (Mattison, p. 130). Third and fourth lines, m r a d i b r s t v i o r e s a l l o e s, Variable, a term applied to stars which move in unexpected directions; Lord Ross, a titled astronomer; and Metis, a planet.
Fourth Verse.—First line, t h n o r, Thorn, Prussia, the birth-place of Copernicus (Mattison, p. 10). Second and third lines, h g t r o r n e n i l s h t, Northern Lights. Fourth line, s d e y h a, Hyades, a cluster of stars.