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    CONSIDERING THE VOID
    When I behold the charm
    of evening skies, their lulling endurance;
    the patterns of stars with names
    of bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin;
    other planets that the Voyager showed
    were like and so unlike our own,
    with all their diverse moons,
    bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces;
    comets with their streaming tails
    bent by pressure from our sun;
    the skyscape of our Milky Way
    holding in its shimmering disc
    an infinity of suns
    (or say a thousand billion);
    knowing there are holes of darkness
    gulping mass and even light,
    knowing that this galaxy of ours
    is one of multitudes
    in what we call the heavens,
    it troubles me. It troubles me.
    -President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest,
    about the Revolutionary War).

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