"Great Galileo was debarr'd the Sun Because he fix'd it; and, to stop his talking, How Earth could round the solar orbit run, Found his own legs embargo'd from mere walking: The man was well-nigh dead, ere men begun To think his skull had not some need of caulking; But now, it seems, he's right — his notion just: No doubt a consolation to his dust."
January 1, 1970