| When I heard the learn’d astronomer; |
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| When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; |
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| When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; |
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| When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, |
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| How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; |
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| Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, |
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| In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, |
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| Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. |