The matter with the Mid-Victorians
Seems to have been a man named John L. Darwin.”[14]
“Go ’long,” I said to him, he to his horse.
I knew a man who failing as a farmer
Burned down his farmhouse for the fire insurance,
And spent the proceeds on a telescope[15]
To satisfy a life-long curiosity
About our place among the infinities.
And how was that for other-worldliness?
If I must choose which I would elevate—