James Russell Lowell Quote

The beauty of his better self lives on
In minds he touched with fire, in many an eye
He trained to Truth's exact severity;
He was a teacher: why be grieved for him
Whose living word still stimulates the air?

Of Louis Agassiz

'Ode on the Death of Agassiz' (1888)


The beauty of his better self lives on In minds he touched with fire, in many an eye He trained to Truth's exact severity; He was a teacher: why be...

The beauty of his better self lives on In minds he touched with fire, in many an eye He trained to Truth's exact severity; He was a teacher: why be...

The beauty of his better self lives on In minds he touched with fire, in many an eye He trained to Truth's exact severity; He was a teacher: why be...

The beauty of his better self lives on In minds he touched with fire, in many an eye He trained to Truth's exact severity; He was a teacher: why be...