Fifth Day of Yule-Tide

 On the fifth day of Yule-tide my true love gave to me, five budget signatures

For a space probe to Titan,

Four record discs for the radio telescope

Three UV fluorescing samples

And two microscope slides

To go in my science laboratory.

 

 

Tani floated in her warm cave

And dreamed of Titan

Of oceans and rivers and rains

Of hydrocarbon

Of a world where you could see the sky

From the ocean

Of a sky filled with vapors and gases and weather

Of spectrum spanning rainbows arching across the sky

Rather than billowing plumes

And the dark night of space

But still the hovering giant of Saturn

Would fill the sky.

It had been a good sixth of a year

Since the last mission to Titan

And Tani had hope

That this time she would go

That this time

She would travel the space between moons

And visit the famed Titan.

It was thus with great glee

That she heard the message left for her

In her lab

That five more benefactors

Had signed on to support the next Titan mission,

And in a neat box

Tied up with a bioluminescent ribbon

Tani found more materials to help her studies,

Four sound recording discs

Three UV fluorescent specimens

And two more microscope slides

All for her science laboratory.