ASTRONOMY
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FINNEGAN—"Oh, yis, Oi can undershtand how thim astronomers can calkilate th' distance av a shtarr, its weight, and dinsity and color and all thot—but th' thing thot gets me is, how th' divvle do they know its name."
I think the stars do nod at me, But not when people are about; For they regard me curiously Whenever I go out. Brothers, what is it ye mean, What is it ye try to say. That so earnestly ye lean From the spirit to the clay? I may have been a star one day, One of the rebel host that fell, And they are nodding down to say. Come back to us from hell.