DISTANT GLIMPSES;

OR,

ASTRONOMICAL SKETCHES.

BY FRANCES BARBARA BURTON.

awful DARKNESS rends the veil of light,
And vast Creation-bursts upon the sight!
Man looks abroad, beyond mere noon day skies,
And vision, through ætherial mazes flies:
One blaze of glories, greets his raptured gaze,
And all Infinitude,-his soUL surveys!"

Manuscript Poems by Frances Barbara Burton.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY W. PICKERING,

CHANCERY LANE.

1837.

PRINTED BY W. PAINE AND CO. HIGH STREET.

WITH

HUMBLE PROSTRATION OF..

DEVOTIONAL FEELING THE LOWLY INCENSE

OF THIS ATTEMPT IS HAZARDED

IN FEEBLE ILLUSTRATION OF THE IMMUTABLE POWER AND INEFFABLE GOODNESS OF THE CREATOR.

DIVISION THE FIRST.

Celestial Bodies comparatively near Mans's actual

Position in Space.