Mystical...........................

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.

-Walt Whitman, circa 1865

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