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Non omnis moriar

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

by Walt Whitman · Explore poems

  1. When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
  2. When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
  3. When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
  4. How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
  5. Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
  6. In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
  7. Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

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