There’s a star in Orion,
That’s well known to fame:
Perhaps you will tell me,
You’ve ne’er heard its name.
Then listen a moment,
I’ll help you to find
The one I’m revolving
Just now in my mind.
Seek a village in Surry,
Which was once call’d Sheen,
The chief town in Suffolk
(Where perhaps you have been,)
An African river,
Whose source is unknown,
Where Napoleon was sent,
When first hurl’d from his throne.
With a Portuguese city,
A place of renown,
Though a ravaging earthquake
Once laid waste the town:
These nam’d, on your patience
No more I’ll intrude;
The star you’ll discover,
To which I allude.
(Elizabeth Hitchener)
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