Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910) Italian astronomer and science historian
Originally in Latin; translated by Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907)
Quoted in Sky and Telescope, March 2011, p. 33
“Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.”
Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990).
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