[PW] poem about galaxies and orbs and things

[Reference]

It appears to be in "Morning in Spring: And other
Poems" by Louis Ginsberg, (NY, Morrow, 1970). 

I did a Google book search on the phrase "only
himself he cannot solve" (in quotes) and found a
snippet view. I tried cobbling together several
snippets and got "Audacious is man / Who dares to
trace / The mystery, / Veining space, — / Man who
scorns / His lowly bars / Whose mind harpoons /
The secrets of stars, / Of atoms that mate /And
orbs that revolve / Only himself he cannot
solve..."

You can do it on other phrases - I tried "and
feels the pulse of galaxies" and came up with
nothing, but turns out it's pulseS - when I used
that, I found more of the poem.

Barb

--- Susan Steinke
<SSteinke at daytonmetrolibrary.org> wrote:

> Please help me keep my promise to my patron
> that I would find this poem for her!  She
> remembers these lines from a poem she memorized
> in grade school in the Sixties:
>  
> Man now fashions a satellite
> And maps the orbit of its flight
> Intrepid is Man who plumbs the seas
> And feels the pulse of galaxies...
>  
> [many more stanzas she forgets, poem ends with
> the following words]:
>  
> ...orbs that revolve
> Only himself he cannot solve.
>  
> I have not only Googled this, I have looked in
> standbys like Last Lines, LitFinder, and the
> various incarnations of Granger's.  The only
> clue I have (JSTOR via Google) is that there is
> an article in the Peabody Journal of Education,
> vol. 43, no. 6 (May 1966) pp. 346-351 that
> possibly quotes the poem and might provide a
> full citation.  I do not have access to this
> journal, nor do I have access to JSTOR.
>  
> Will a kind person with access to these sources
> follow up for me?  Or, better yet, does anyone
> with a phenomenal memory for verse recall this
> from grade school days?
>  
> Thanks for your help--I have lurked for years
> and learned much of value from you all.
>  
> Sue Steinke
> Dayton Metro Library
> ssteinke at daytonmetrolibrary.org
>  
>  
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