When I heard the learn'd astronomer, <br />When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, <br />When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, <br /> and measure them, <br />When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with <br /> much applause in the lecture-room, <br />How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, <br />Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, <br />In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, <br />Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-heard-the-learned-astronomer/
