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Then the Master in his place 

 Bowed his head a little space, 

 And the leaves by soft airs stirred, 

 Lapse of wave, and cry of bird 

 Left the solemn hush unbroken 

 Of that wordless prayer unspoken, 

 While its wish, on earth unsaid, 



Rose to heaven interpreted. 



***** 



Returning from Penikese, Agassiz looked forward Last days 

 to renewed activities of all sorts, but his time was 

 drawing to a close. As late as the 2d of December he 

 delivered one of his characteristic lectures, but from 

 that time he rapidly failed, and died on December 

 14, 1873. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, 

 and his tombstone is a boulder from the glacier of the 

 Aar, not far from the place where so long ago he studied 

 the movements of the ice. 



The island of Penikese is now a leper settlement ; 

 but at Woods Hole, on the coast of the mainland, is 

 a large and important biological station and summer 

 school, where Agassiz's plans and hopes are realized 

 in the fullest manner. Not only this, but on many 

 other coasts such schools have been founded, and 

 throughout the world the impetus given to the study of 

 natural history by Agassiz is still a living force 



References 



GOULD, ALICE BACHE. Louis Agassiz. (Beacon Biographies.) 

 AGASSIZ, ELIZABETH GARY. Louis Agassiz, His Life and Correspondence. 

 MARCOU, JULES. Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agassiz. 



