Norman Rowland Gale (Норман Гейл)
Star-Gazing
Astronomers, working like niggers, Neck-deep in morasses of figures, From Cricketing vainly would wean us With diagrams, even of Venus. We rather would watch a good bowler Than Bears, be they little or Polar; And bar, though of masculine genus, Wise talk on the Transit of Venus. When Ladies at _Lords_ saunter gaily With Parsons (not musing on Paley), Old friend of my boyhood, between us, Then, _then_ is the Transit of Venus!
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