No, not the moon, but simple dial-plate <br />Is lightning me, and ‘tis my nasty fate, <br />That lights of stars I feel as light internal! <br /> <br />And loftiness of Batyushkov I hate: <br />'What time is it?' - he had been asked there <br />late -- <br />And he had answered with curiosity 'Eternal!'<br /><br />Osip Emilevich Mandelstam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-not-the-moon-but-simple-dial-plate/
