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 wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist
night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect
silence at the stars.
