...leaping through the skies Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva I'm gonna go go go There's no stopping me
Distant scintillating star, Shall I tell you what you are? Nay, for I can merely know What you were some years ago. For, the rays that reach me here May have left your photosphere Ere the fight of Waterloo— Ere the pterodactyl flew! Many stars have passed a way Since your aether-shaking ray On its lengthy journey sped — So that you, perhaps, are dead! Smashed in some tremendous war With another mighty star— You and all your planets just Scattered into cosmic dust! Strange, if you have vanished quite, That we still behold your light, Playing for so long a time Some celestial pantomime! But, supposing all is well, What you’re made of, can I tell? Yes, ’twill be an easy task If my spectroscope I ask.
A shooting star. :)
ResponderEliminar...leaping through the skies
ResponderEliminarLike a tiger defying the laws of gravity
I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go go go
There's no stopping me
(eterno Freddie Mercury)
Distant scintillating star,
ResponderEliminarShall I tell you what you are?
Nay, for I can merely know
What you were some years ago.
For, the rays that reach me here
May have left your photosphere
Ere the fight of Waterloo—
Ere the pterodactyl flew!
Many stars have passed a way
Since your aether-shaking ray
On its lengthy journey sped —
So that you, perhaps, are dead!
Smashed in some tremendous war
With another mighty star—
You and all your planets just
Scattered into cosmic dust!
Strange, if you have vanished quite,
That we still behold your light,
Playing for so long a time
Some celestial pantomime!
But, supposing all is well,
What you’re made of, can I tell?
Yes, ’twill be an easy task
If my spectroscope I ask.
Minchin, G. M.
Nature
1898