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    1866 poem mentioning "the neighbor folk of Mars"

    In 1866, Edward Rowland Sill wrote a poem titled "The Hermitage," first published in 1868. A passage in it anticipated space exploration to the Moon and Mars. However small the present creature man, — Ridiculous imitation of the gods, Weak plagiarism on some completer world, — Yet we can boast...