NEPTUNE

 

Gustav Holst’s Mystic

Farthest planet from the Sun

Beautiful ice giant

Whose brilliant blue

Appearance belies

The deadly atmosphere

Of frozen methane

URANUS

 

Gustav Holst’s magician

Beautiful ice giant

Whose clouds of methane

Present a featureless disk

Of blue-green colour

SATURN

 

Gustav Holst’s

The bringer of old age

In a state of perpetual storm

Saturn the mighty gas giant

With Iconic rings of dust and ice

An image comforting and reliant

MERCURY

 

Gustav Holst’s

Winged Messenger

The lifeless silver sphere

Races around our fiery star

As fast as its name sake

The fast-flying Roman deity,

Messenger to the gods

JUPITER

 

Gustav Holst’s

Bringer of Jollity

The mighty gas giant

Red belted Jupiter

Largest in the solar system

With its great red spot

A storm that has raged

For centuries

ARE YOU WEARING TINTED LENSES?

 

Are you wearing tinted lenses?

And the colour of vermillion

In normal light they look great

But at night you look like an alien

MUSIC IN SPACE

 

Round the world they go

In nineteen sixty five

Orbiting the earth

So high up in the sky

 

Dashing round the world

Above the earth they race

Jingle Bells the song, was

The first one played in space

 

O Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way.
Oh! What fun it is to ride

In a space ship far away hey

 

Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells