Excerpt from An Astronomical Diary, or an Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1743: And From the Creation of the World According to the Best of Prophane History, 5693' and by the Account of the Holy Scriptures, 5645, Being the Third Year After Bissextile, or Leap Year The lovely Qteen of filent Shades, The Moon, in trembling fireams of Light, Wheels her pale Chariot (lowly on O'er the loft Bofom of the Night Millions of bright refalgent Worlds, Heavens glitt'ring Lamps are (em to me They as her Virgin Train appear, And fhe the fair Vicegerent of the Skies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.