Quando ascoltai l’astronomo erudito
Quando udii l’astronomo acculturato,
Quando dimostrazioni e cifre vennero incolonnate dinanzi a me,
quando mi mostrarono carte e diagrammi per sommarle, dividerle e misurarle,
quando mi sedetti a udire il seminario dell’astronomo tra mille applausi in sala,
oh, quanto presto mi stancai e stufai,
fino a che mi alzai e me ne scivolai via scappando,
nella mistica aria notturna brumosa, e di quando in quando
rimirai in perfetto silenzio le stelle
Walt Whitman
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.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer
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