JEFFRIES WYMAN 

 DIED 4th SEPT., 1874 



The wisest man could ask no more of Fate 

 Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, 

 Safe from the Many, honored by the Few ; 

 Nothing to court in World, or Church, or State, 

 But inwardly in secret to be great ; 

 To feel mysterious Nature ever new, 

 To touch, if not to grasp, her endless clew, 

 And learn by each discovery how to wait ; 

 To widen knowledge and escape the praise ; 

 Wisely to teach, because more wise to learn ; 

 To toil for Science, not to draw men's gaze, 

 But for her lore of self-denial stern ; 

 That such a man could spring from our decays 

 Fans the soul's nobler faith until it burn. 



JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 



