Citation - New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth: 1759.05.11

NHG-P.759.016
11 May 1759:41 (136)
The following was wrote by a person on his misfortune of not
having the advantage of making nice astronomical
observations, when he first discovered the comet.
  Hah!  there it flames, the long expected star,
  And darts it's awful glories from afar!
  Punctual at length the traveller appears
  From its long journey of nigh fourscore years.
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