“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 wandered off by myself In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”
~ Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
