Saturday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
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 [...]

(read by Neil deGrasse Tyson)

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2024/04/when-i-heard-learnd-astronomer-walt.html

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