The Summer Sky, Part 2

Abstract

The remaining summer constellations of interest include, from west to east and north to south, a crown, a harp, two birds, a dolphin, a scorpion, and a centaur.

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;

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 wandered off by myself

In the mystical moist night air, and from time to time,

Looked up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman