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'You know Orion always comes up sideways	A
Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains	B
And rising on his hands he looks in on me	C
Busy outdoors by lantern light with something	D
I should have done by daylight and indeed	E
After the ground is frozen I should have done	F
Before it froze and a gust flings a handful	G
Of waste leaves at my smoky lantern chimney	C
To make fun of my way of doing things	H
Or else fun of Orion's having caught me	C
Has a man I should like to ask no rights	I
These forces are obliged to pay respect to '	J
So Brad McLaughlin mingled reckless talk	K
Of heavenly stars with hugger mugger farming	D
Till having failed at hugger mugger farming	D
He burned his house down for the fire insurance	L
And spent the proceeds on a telescope	M
To satisfy a lifelong curiosity	C
About our place among the infinities	L
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'What do you want with one of those blame things '	-
I asked him well beforehand 'Don't you get one '	-
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'Don't call it blamed there isn't anything	D
More blameless in the sense of being less	L
A weapon in our human fight ' he said	N
'I'll have one if I sell my farm to buy it '	-
There where he moved the rocks to plow the ground	O
And plowed between the rocks he couldn't move	P
Few farms changed hands so rather than spend years	L
Trying to sell his farm and then not selling	D
He burned his house down for the fire insurance	L
And bought the telescope with what it came to	Q
He had been heard to say by several	R
'The best thing that we're put here for's to see	L
The strongest thing that's given us to see with's	L
A telescope Someone in every town	S
Seems to me owes it to the town to keep one	F
In Littleton it might as well be me '	-
After such loose talk it was no surprise	L
When he did what he did and burned his house down	S
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Mean laughter went about the town that day	T
To let him know we weren't the least imposed on	U
And he could wait we'd see to him tomorrow	V
But the first thing next morning we reflected	W
If one by one we counted people out	X
For the least sin it wouldn't take us long	Y
To get so we had no one left to live with	Z
For to be social is to be forgiving	D
Our thief the one who does our stealing from us	L
We don't cut off from coming to church suppers	L
But what we miss we go to him and ask for	A2
He promptly gives it back that is if still	B2
Uneaten unworn out or undisposed of	C2
It wouldn't do to be too hard on Brad	D2
About his telescope Beyond the age	E2
Of being given one for Christmas gift	F2
He had to take the best way he knew how	G2
To find himself in one Well all we said was	L
He took a strange thing to be roguish over	H2
Some sympathy was wasted on the house	L
A good old timer dating back along	Y
But a house isn't sentient the house	L
Didn't feel anything And if it did	I2
Why not regard it as a sacrifice	L
And an old fashioned sacrifice by fire	H2
Instead of a new fashioned one at auction	F
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Out of a house and so out of a farm	J2
At one stroke of a match Brad had to turn	K2
To earn a living on the Concord railroad	L2
As under ticket agent at a station	F
Where his job when he wasn't selling tickets	L
Was setting out up track and down not plants	L
As on a farm but planets evening stars	L
That varied in their hue from red to green	M2
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He got a good glass for six hundred dollars	L
His new job gave him leisure for stargazing	Y
Often he bid me come and have a look	Y
Up the brass barrel velvet black inside	N2
At a star quaking in the other end	O2
I recollect a night of broken clouds	L
And underfoot snow melted down to ice	L
And melting further in the wind to mud	W
Bradford and I had out the telescope	M
We spread our two legs as we spread its three	L
Pointed our thoughts the way we pointed it	P2
And standing at our leisure till the day broke	Y
Said some of the best things we ever said	N
That telescope was christened the Star Splitter	L
Because it didn't do a thing but split	P2
A star in two or three the way you split	P2
A globule of quicksilver in your hand	Q2
With one stroke of your finger in the middle	R
It's a star splitter if there ever was one	F
And ought to do some good if splitting stars	L
'Sa thing to be compared with splitting wood	R2
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We've looked and looked but after all where are we	L
Do we know any better where we are	L
And how it stands between the night tonight	S2
And a man with a smoky lantern chimney	L
How different from the way it ever stood	R2

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