Or : What happened to that heavenly body ?

An Occasional Poem on a Changing Universe

Astronomers , hide your collective face!

Astrologers , to the corner in disgrace !

And that same Disney , by name of Walt,

No more need admit to a grievous fault

when he took a god of Roman fame ,

reversed god to dog , and gave the name

to a tongue- lolling , sniffing , panting hound --

as stupid a dog as could be found !

But now he might find some satisfaction

In new cosmology's last redaction .

Years past , a god took his special place

Out in the depths of darkest space --

But now , alas , it has come to this

They've reclassified Hades or Dis !

The solar system has shrunk in toto

Because they've decided to degrade Pluto.