"It's from the earth, it's rounded, it's organic," she added.
He would look at the half-moon and try to see it not as the goddess Diana or as a comic-book decal but as a sphere hung in empty space, its illumined side an infallible indication of where the sun was shining on the other side of the earth's huge dark round mass.
The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
I think of Keats each time, and of "the moving waters at their priestlike task of pure ablution round earth's human shores".
Proulx's Prayer of the Venerable Bede, Hirten's Mass for the Saint of Joy, Hoiby's "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners," Karg-Elert's "Lobet den Herren mit Pauken und Zimbeln Schön" and Telemann's Sonata for Trumpet and Organ; Christopher J. Hatcher, organist; Andrew Paulsen, trumpeter; Dennis B. Delaney, music director.
At this moment we are spinning round earth's axis at 800 miles per hour while our little Spaceship Earth zooms around the sun at 30,000 mph, and our solar system rotates in its nebular merry-go-round at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour.
Wordsworth's lines seemed very present, when he speaks of a beloved, newly departed, "rolled round in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees".
It makes a difference because the earth's orbit is not perfectly round, but a bit elliptical.
So he decides to answer every question with a statement that's undeniably true: "The Earth is round".
