When I Heard(hərd) the Learn’d Astronomer(əˈstränəmər)

When I Heard(hərd) the Learn’d Astronomer(əˈstränəmər)

By Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs(pro͞of), the figures(ˈfigyər), were ranged in columns(ˈkäləm) before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams(ˈdīəˌgram), to add, divide(diˈvīd), and measure(ˈmeZHər) them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured(ˈlekCHər) with much applause(əˈplôz) in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable(ˌənəˈkountəbəl) I became tired(tīrd) and sick(sik),

Till rising(ˈrīziNG) and gliding(ˈglīdiNG) out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical(ˈmistikəl) moist(moist) night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

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