When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts, the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the learned astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and … Continue reading Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” 1865