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VOTIVE TABLETS: TO THE ASTRONOMERS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the nebulae and planets do not babble so to me
Last Line: Never the sublime abideth — where you vainly search — in space!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Space And Space Travel


OF the Nebulæ and planets do not babble so to me;
What! is Nature only mighty inasmuch as you can see?
Inasmuch as you can measure her immeasurable ways,
As she renders world on world, sun and system to your gaze?
Though through space your object be the Sublimest to embrace,
Never the Sublime abideth — where you vainly search — in space!





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