[HighlyOpinionated]

When 'all the world's ajangle and ajar' it is good to 'meditate on interstellar spaces'
And smoke a mild seegar.

Canopus is the title of the poem.

Is Bert Leston Taylor (author) 1866-
still alive?

WHEN quacks with pills political would dope us,
When politics absorbs the livelong day,
I like to think about that star Canopus,
So far, so far away.

[jmcenanly]

Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921)
I made the connection contrasting events around distant stars with the rantings and ravings of politicians. I can’t find any information on just how long a year is on Fomalhaut b, but considering how little of the orbit it covered during two Earth years, it must take the better part of a millenium.