The Confessions of Frances Godwin by Robert Hellenga

Author:Robert Hellenga
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

In the evening we sat out on the deck till it got dark and we could see the constellations rising as the earth rolled into the night. Stella went online and found the poem about Professor Moon, one of the few poems in The Spoon River Anthology that didn’t expose a life that had been petty, spiteful, and disappointing.

They laughed at me as “Prof. Moon,”

As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst

Of knowing about the stars.

They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains,

And the thrilling heat and cold,

And the ebon valleys by silver peaks,

And Spica quadrillions of miles away,

And the littleness of man.

But now that my grave is honored, friends,

Let it not be because I taught

The lore of the stars in Knox College,

But rather for this: that through the stars

I preached the greatness of man,

Who is none the less a part of the scheme of things

For the distance of Spica or the Spiral Nebulae;

Nor any the less a part of the question

Of what the drama means.

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