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 astromomer 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 up in perfect silence at the stars.