Grade 12 · Poem
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 the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
From "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman (1865) · When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, Walt Whitman (1865)
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