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When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

1/30/2015

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One of my favorite poems:

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
by Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

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Rich link
1/30/2015 07:59:00 am

That's some a great poem. Kyle, thanks for sharing it with the lab … and the world!

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Howard Lowe link
11/27/2020 10:49:26 pm

Greaat read

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