Monday, December 20, 2010

FREE FLIGHT INTO THE WORDLESS


TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON
  by Alan M. MacRobert


Late tonight, visible from all of North and Central America. The partial phase begins 1:33 a.m. Tuesday morning EST, total eclipse runs from 2:41 to 3:53 a.m. EST, partial eclipse ends at 5:01 a.m. EST. For our part of the world the Moon will be very high in the sky; in fact from the American Southwest and Southern California it will be near the zenith. The Moon will be centered between the bright constellations Orion, Auriga, Gemini, and Taurus.

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A  CLEAR MIDNIGHT 
by Walt Whitman
This is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering
the themes thou lovest best, 
Night, sleep, death and the stars.

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