To Carl Sagan (an Elegy)
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:03 am
Dark were the woods of science
Restricted to minds of a kind
You cleared and brightened thence
Pulling a throng once left behind
Many a bright star
Light years away high
To me where farther
Till you brought them by
The vast cosmic realms
Whose gospel you duly preached
There now, your soul dwells
Within dimensions you dreamed
In astronomy’s greatest page
Sagan would be printed in gold
In memory of a great sage
Whose genius enriched the world
Restricted to minds of a kind
You cleared and brightened thence
Pulling a throng once left behind
Many a bright star
Light years away high
To me where farther
Till you brought them by
The vast cosmic realms
Whose gospel you duly preached
There now, your soul dwells
Within dimensions you dreamed
In astronomy’s greatest page
Sagan would be printed in gold
In memory of a great sage
Whose genius enriched the world