To the Moon

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,—
And ever-changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

2 Responses to “To the Moon”

  1. It is indeed a great poem describing our dynamic universe of changing laws and constants in an non isotropic universe of gravitoethertons. Poets and philosophers see much ahead of scientists based on mathematical models.

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