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?