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Other lips within its bound 

 Shall the laws of life expound ; 

 Other eyes from rock and shell 

 Read the world's old riddles well ; 

 But when breezes light and bland 

 Blow from summer's blossomed land, 

 When the air is glad with wings. 

 And the blithe song-sparrow sings, 

 .Many an eye with his still face 

 Shall the living ones displace, 

 Many an ear the word shall seek 

 He alone could fitly speak. 

 And one name forevermore 

 Shall be uttered o'er and o'er 

 By the waves that kiss the shore, 

 By the curlew's whistle sent 

 Down the cool, sea-scented air ; 

 In all voices known to her, 

 Nature owns her worshipper, 

 Half in triumph, half lament. 

 Thither Love shall tearful turn, 

 Friendship pause uncovered there. 

 And the wisest reverence learn 

 From the Master's silent prayer. 



It was amusing to see Agassiz delivering his lectures, 

 surrounded not only by forty-four students, 1 of both sexes, 

 but by the workmen who were finishing the interior ar- 

 rangements and erecting a second building. Never had 

 the small island seen so many people collected on its 

 shores. Every one was collecting, examining with 

 microscopes, dissecting, or watching marine animals in 



1 Among the students at Penikese, I will mention only a few who have 

 become celebrated since: Professor C. O. Whitman of Chicago University, 

 I). S. Jordan, President of the I.cland Stanford Jr. University (CalilWmu ), 

 Professor William K. Brooks, and Professor Charles S. Minot. 



