Young Astronomer's Gaze, A

DESCRIPTION: "As I gaze in the starry heaven of blue, I see Orion and his neighbors two; And of all the fixed stars... I see only a few, And none are very new, But as old as time is old." Saturn and its rings are mentioned, as well as the animals in the constellations
AUTHOR: George Mefford Bell?
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thomas-BalladMakingInMountainsOfKentucky, p. 256, "A Young Astronomer's Gaze" (1 text) (OakEd, pp. 255-256)
NOTES [47 words]: The observations in this song are genuinely suitable to a young astronomer, since Orion is (along with the Big Dipper) perhaps easiest to recognize of all the northern constellations. I'm not sure which constellations are thought to be Orion's neighbors; perhaps Gemini and Auriga? - RBW
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File: ThBa256A

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