Walt Whitman’s iconic poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” adapted into comic form. Check out the inspiring full version at Zen Pencils.
In fact, check out all of the comics at Zen Pencils. They’re outstanding.
When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer
When I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the 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.
- Walt Whitman
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Space Pioneers
YouTuber JankAround has assembled this epic tribute to the human and robotic pioneers of the stellar wilderness. Set to Walt Whitman’s poem “O, Pioneers!” … will we bear the responsibility to be tomorrow’s pioneers?
Demand it, and it shall be yours.
“We take up the task eternal, and the burden, and the lesson…”
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