A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major.
1 We name the same constellation diversely, as Charles 's Wain , the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
2 One witness names the stars 'Great Bear'; one calls them ' Charles 's Wain ' ; one calls them the 'Dipper.'
3 If I wish to ennoble the heavens by the constellations I see there, ' Charles 's Wain ' would be more true than 'Dipper.'
4 I turn away my head, and look out of the window up at Charles 's Wain , and all my other bright old friends.
5 What did she care for the progress of the hours, since the constellation of Charles 's Wain showed her that it was past midnight?
6 I am the hero of the crowds, as, on my trusty aeroplane, I cleave a pathway through the clouds, to Milky Way and Charles 's Wain .
7 Charles 's Wain , Great Bear, Orion, Leo, Hercules: every god will leave us.
8 Charles 's Wain lay inverted in the northern horizon; Bootes had driven his sparkling herd down the slope of the western sky.
9 Charles 's Wain , burning low on the gorges of the Edough, seems like a golden waggon rolling through the fields of Heaven.
10 We shall find all their teams going the other way,-Charles'sWain, Great Bear, Orion, Leo, Hercules: every god will leave us.
11 "But I know," said he, "that it has something to do with the Great Bear, and the Dipper, and the Plough, and Charles 's Wain . "
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