When I Heard The Learned Astronomer
When I heard the learned Astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures,
were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the carts 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 unaccounted I became tried
and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wandered
off by myself,
In the mystical moist night- air, and from
time to time,
Looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
