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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472392" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Benjamin Peirce</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN. 1809-1890</div><div style="margin:10px 0">FOR him the Architect of all<br>Unroofed our planet's starlit hall;<br>Through voids unknown to worlds unseen<br>His clearer vision rose serene.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With us on earth he walked by day,<br>His midnight path how far away!<br>We knew him not so well who knew<br>The patient eyes his soul looked through;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For who his untrod realm could share<br>Of us that breathe this mortal air,<br>Or camp in that celestial tent<br>Whose fringes gild our firmament?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How vast the workroom where he brought<br>The viewless implements of thought!<br>The wit how subtle, how profound,<br>That Nature's tangled webs unwound;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That through the clouded matrix saw<br>The crystal planes of shaping law,<br>Through these the sovereign skill that planned,--<br>The Father's care, the Master's hand!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To him the wandering stars revealed<br>The secrets in their cradle sealed<br>The far-off, frozen sphere that swings<br>Through ether, zoned with lucid rings;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The orb that rolls in dim eclipse<br>Wide wheeling round its long ellipse,--<br>His name Urania writes with these<br>And stamps it on her Pleiades.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We knew him not? Ah, well we knew<br>The manly soul, so brave, so true,<br>The cheerful heart that conquered age,<br>The childlike silver-bearded sage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No more his tireless thought explores<br>The azure sea with golden shores;<br>Rest, wearied frame I the stars shall keep<br>A loving watch where thou shalt sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell! the spirit needs must rise,<br>So long a tenant of the skies,--<br>Rise to that home all worlds above<br>Whose sun is God, whose light is love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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FOR him the Architect of all
Unroofed our planet's starlit hall;
Through voids unknown to worlds unseen
His clearer vision rose serene.

With us on earth he walked by day,
His midnight path how far away!
We kn..."></div>
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