Leadership Through Public Speaking
-“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass “When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the chards and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them… When I was sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” One of my…
