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The Old Observatory

I never got to see it in its prime:
The place had been closed for quite a long time—
When I was your age the schools were crippled:
Their budgets halved while expenses tripled;

And once the economic bubble burst,
The temple to astronomy went first.

Officialdom was safe in what it chose:
The sky could not compete with TV shows.

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