Poem by JMcF mentions Kolob in the context of a comet.
J. McF., "Gazing at the Comet," The Ogden Junction 2, no. 252 (July 11, 1874): [3]
State barge of the gods, in amazement and wonder
The eyes of Earth's millions are turning to
thee.
The arcs of thine orbit philosophers ponder,
To search out thy path through eternity's sea.
O what is thy mission? Is guaging the forces
The aim of thy trip through the regions afar?
Do Kolob or Libra abate in their courses
And threatened at space with material war?
Is thy luminous train an electric renewer,
Refreshing all circles whose pulses beat low?
Or bear'st thou some mighty celestial reviewer
To mark if the systems don't reel to and fro.
Art thou fresh from chaotic fountain of
causes,
Where slumber the yet unborn germs of new
spheres,
Where the brooding great life-giving power ne'er
pauses
Eternal, unchanged through immensity's years?
O vast are the depths! and the soul faints in reach
ing
To grasp mighty causes that gave thee thy
birth
O science immortal! inspire by thy teaching
The embryo gods, who inhabit the earth.
Revelations of science! Ah tis all revelation.
The blind only prate of original power,
With the shade hover'ing near of thy grave habi-
tation
Be humble O creature, the moth of an hour.
Tis circle on circle and endless progression,
And sphere above sphere through the regions
of space
All right-angled action must fail in posession
And win the blind to[?]ler no prize in the race.
Then as upward we gave at the glories above us
And wonder till earth almost fades from our
view,
Taught by thee, let us think of the fathers who
love us
To ourselves, to the Gods and to nature be true,
J. McF
This poem was about a comet designated as C/1874 H1 which was a large and very visible comet in the sky during the summer of 1874, sometimes referred to as the "Great Comet of 1874."