Remembering Columbus Day
Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on October 8th, 2007 at 12:05 am In fourteen hundred and ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue…
When I was growing up we still celebrated Columbus Day on October 12th. Now it’s not much more than an excuse for the post office to close, sales at the local mall, and some protestors to protest… and it falls on the second Monday of October, regardless of the date.
Yesterday, I heard a clever way for us to pay homage to Columbus and his voyages.
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figure, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
When the proofs, the figure, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
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