Then, dearest child, mournest thou only for Jupiter? | |
| Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? | |
| Something there is, | 25 |
| (With my lips soothing thee, adding, I whisper, | |
| I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) | |
| Something there is more immortal even than the stars, | |
| (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) | |
| Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter, | 30 |
| Longer than sun, or any revolving satellite, | |
| Or the radiant brothers, the Pleiades. -Walt Whitman's "On the Beach at Night" |
Monday, August 16, 2010
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Wow. Makes me want to go get a telescope.
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