Wanderers

Wanderers

Wide are the meadows of night,

And daisies are shinng there,

Tossing their lovely dews,

Lustrous and fair;

And through these sweet fields go,

Wanderers amid the stars --

Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune,

Saturn, Jupiter, Mars.

'Tired in their silver, they move,

And circling, whisper and say,

Fair are the blossoming meads of delight

Through which we stray.

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

De la Mare's first succesful book was The Listeners and is his most anthologized piece. Wanderers comes from his children's book Peacock Pie; A Book of Rhymes published in 1913. It's a light and well constructed verse that names all of the planets save one, Pluto. Although the plants existence was postulated 8 years earlier by Percivil Lowell it wasn't until 1930 when another American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh found Pluto near the position Lowell had predicted. However, it was on today's date March 13, 1781 that another wandering star; a body in motion about the sun, Uranus was accidentally discovered by the British astronomer Sir William Herschel.

Sources:

Blair, Bob:
http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/000313.htm

Bram, Robert Philips, Norma H. Dicky, "de la Mare, Walter," Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia , 1988.

Public domain text taken from The Poets' Corner:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/gp2_4.html#wanderers

CST Approved.

Originally put on the end of the clubs' name to signify that they did not have a home ground of their own and had to play all their games at away grounds or neutral grounds. Obviously most of these teams now do have their own home stadiums, since the title 'Wanderers' was mainly put on clubs' names in the late 1800s to early 1900s.