Sunday, June 2, 2013

Learned Biologist by Kimberly Coverly


Learned Biologist by Kimberly Coverly

When I heard the learned biologist,
When the cells were drawn intricately before me,
When I was shown the structures of functioning machines,
When I, sitting, listened to the lecture in the hall,
How quickly I became tired and dozed off,
Walking silently to the next class,
Marveling at the complexity of my limbs.

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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman

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 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 wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. 

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