When I heard the learned astronomer
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me
When I was shown the charts and the 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
Looked up in perfect silence at the stars
