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.

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