Watchers of the Sky

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the year that

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dreams for five-

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rightest window

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me to claim it,

from its fort

bidding him take

ght, for nothin

re fables. They

him a magicia

, who wore the

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who find and

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ought t

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pse foretold;

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openhagen, w

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ith his table

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eeping through

sting stork, he

tions, Cassio

ll pointing to

t of Orion. T

f the planets,

at the myst

id in secret,

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when Tycho Br

nsmen hoped th

rene as they,

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still be shed; o

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sent him in hi

or such studi

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elicate angles

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ument. Even wi

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me, as Tycho se

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from the gar

compass, peer

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feet, standing a

seemed an appl

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ice of earth, d

ights to that warm

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of the world,

out of the fragra

ling from you

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it back

saw

one small arche

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stain off. "On

wed it

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tried an

to catch that

upple body s

ps that parted

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e he caught it;

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-trees, into the

his room, and

llow that fo

opened, and t

his father, g

his? What

ous-eyed

edside, pulled

n the stranges

ubled Eden,-h

enchased with

stial globe th

Lei

orm burst o

ck 'pothecary'

k calendar-make

mother of any K

father like

rrel followed

ckened of his

hrough the woods

top, ringed with

glade of whi

ht, he stole to

old the oldest

ched beside him

ove, more beautif

rth, the peasant

in the dusk, o

ore he went

deep among the w

id goo

return,

for their foll

e the stars, Chr

g or Rostoch

more knowledge.

onquer. We kno

ammed with fable

e, and there a

hem were out

ter and

's on

, to knowled

rs are steered,

even perhaps

ations,-only

tch them, watch

ow, and not the

tch them, though

ery night our

onstant glori

ne, upraised to

ment, speak ac

k with knowledge

will wai

nswer

th the starlig