All I could see from where I stood 
was three long mountains and a wood 
I turned and looked another way 
and saw three islands in a bay 

So with my eyes I traced the line 
of the horizon thin and fine 
straight around till I [bad word] 
back to where I'd started from 

And all I saw from where I stood 
was three long mountains and a wood 
over these things I could not see 
these were the things that bounded me 

But sure the sky is big I said 
miles and miles above my head 
so here upon my back I'll lie 
and look my fill into the sky 

And I could touch them with my hand 
almost I thought from where I stand 
and all at once things seemed so small 
my breath came short and scarce at all 

But sure the sky is big I said 
miles and miles above my head 
so here upon my back I'll lie 
and look my fill into the sky 

(excerpt from the poem Renascence c 1912, 1940 by Edna St. Vincent Millay)