On waxing lyrical

Updated April 18 2018 - 11:50pm, first published January 28 2013 - 3:00am

Alas, nobody seems to have written a poem about 2007's Comet McNaught, the most sparkling comet seen in Australian skies in recent years. But one day in the early 1860s Charles Harpur had his poem about a comet published in a Braidwood newspaper.

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