WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER
by: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
HEN 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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