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an epigram in the newspaper about them. Mr. Pond had published some remarks on the planet 'Venus,' and the wit asked him, 'Why he troubled himself about Venus in the skies, when he had got Venus beside him on earth?'"
The enthusiasm shown in Campbell's account of his interview with Herschel, however, does not appear to have been so lasting as could be wished. In his lines "To the Rainbow," written six years after, in 1819, he says—
When Science from Creation's face
Enchantment's veil withdraws,
What lovely visions yield their place
To cold material laws!"
The idea, like the feet in the last line, is somewhat halting.
