JEFFRIES WYMAN 



Died September 4, 1 874 



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 



