Adrienne Rich - For the Conjunction of Two Planets lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - For the Conjunction of Two Planets lyrics]
We smile at astrological hopes
And leave the sky to expert men
Who do not reckon horoscopes
But painfully extend their ken
In mathematical debate
With slide and photographic plate
And yet, protest it if we will
Some corner of the mind retains
The medival man, who still
Keeps watch upon those starry skeins
And drives us out of doors at night
To gaze at anagrams of light
Whatever register or law
Is drawn in digit's for these two
Venus and Jupiter keep their awe
Wardens of brilliance, as they do
Their dual circuit of the west –
The brightest planet and her guest
Is any light so proudly thrust
From darkness on our lifted faces
A sign of something we can trust
Or is it that in starry places
We see the things we long to see
In fiery iconography?
And leave the sky to expert men
Who do not reckon horoscopes
But painfully extend their ken
In mathematical debate
With slide and photographic plate
And yet, protest it if we will
Some corner of the mind retains
The medival man, who still
Keeps watch upon those starry skeins
And drives us out of doors at night
To gaze at anagrams of light
Whatever register or law
Is drawn in digit's for these two
Venus and Jupiter keep their awe
Wardens of brilliance, as they do
Their dual circuit of the west –
The brightest planet and her guest
Is any light so proudly thrust
From darkness on our lifted faces
A sign of something we can trust
Or is it that in starry places
We see the things we long to see
In fiery iconography?