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VOTIVE TABLETS: TO THE ASTRONOMERS by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

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!
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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