Enlightenment

When I look up and see the sky above me I see the bright stars and sometimes red Mars I oft wonder why the ancients did try to see creatures up there high in the air And what things were foretold in those days of old when the sun disappeared and a comet appeared They tried to make sense of random events by discerning a pattern in the movements of Saturn Though their ideas were wrong they found before long at the same time each year those same signs did appear So up here in the North when Orion strode forth in the low southern sky they knew winter was nigh With measurements refined a new 'science' was defined that then came to be known as Astrology And as centuries passed there came reason at last and mankind said goodbye to those gods in the sky But though now we may mock When you sit and take stock A great debt we now owe to those men long ago It was their observations and refined calculations that has now come to be known as Astronomy