When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer

EN I heard the learn'd astronomer;

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;

When I was shown the charts and the 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.