Image Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/E. Nardini et al;
Optical: NASA/STScI
Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?
Soaring through air to find the bright abode,
Th’ empyreal palace of the thund’ring God,
We on thy pinions can surpass the wind,
And leave the rolling universe behind:
From star to star the mental optics rove,
Measure the skies, and range the realms above.
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze th’ unbounded soul.
~ Phillis Wheatley
(On Imagination)
Imagination ! Lovely poem and maravellous illustration …
Thank you, Sybil – I’ve been watching a lot of episodes of “How the Universe Works” on the science channel on TV lately. Mind-boggling and a good way to enjoy the great indoors this humid, murky summer…
Another beautiful pairing of graphic and poem – THANK YOU!
You are more than welcome, Laurie! 🙂
Whenever we drive through the desert at night, I look out the window and am always stunned by the stars as I ‘range the realms above’. The depth of lights that pierce the dark: beyond space, beyond years, beyond time, is almost too marvelous to grasp.