Lundergan: When I heard the learn'd astronomer
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Poem by: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Music by: Ed Lundergan
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Recording - Lundergan SATB (2013)
Recording - Kairos Vocal Ensemble album "The Valley Sings: Composers of the Hudson Valley" (2013)
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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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