With much applause

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P o w e r   P l a y

Evening Sky

Columbia, South Carolina

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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.

= Walt Whitman =

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Happy Tuesday