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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer.

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WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER.

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.

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