Associated with the lunar story.
Still Pickering's vegetable views are tame
Contrasted with Professor Goddard's aim;
For he, as from the daily Press we learn,
An obvious plagiarist of good Jules Verne,
Would have us build a Bertha fat enough
To send a charge of high explosive stuff
Across the intervening seas of space
Bang into Luna's unoffending face.
Meanwhile our own alert star-gazing chief,