by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

Astronomy
Language: English 
The Wain upon the northern steep
  Descends and lifts away.
Oh I will sit me down and weep
  For bones in Africa.
 
For pay and medals, name and rank,
  Things that he has not found,
He hove the Cross to heaven and sank
  The pole-star underground.
 
And now he does not even see
  Signs of the nadir roll
At night over the ground where he
  Is buried with the pole.

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