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He found prose more ditficult than verse to write, and lie secured 

 the well known medalist and sculptor, Victor David Brenner, to 

 make a " beautiful low relief of her face " in bronze. He designed 

 the reverse of the medal of her, and chose its inscription. He 

 was conhdent 



Her pure sweet deeds will ever wider tlow. In other li\es unceasing live 

 and ijrow. As priceless part of earth's great heritage . . . Nature and Art, 

 twin goddesses fair. Walked with her, my beloved, everywhere. Unfolding 

 the beauty in common and lowly things, Till the varied earth, inwoven 

 with mystic light. Darkened and gleamed, a haunting loveliness of form 

 and tone. Proclaiming in rapturous hours the Master Will, The indwelling 

 Soul, whose law unto love is wed. Oh would I could know if the heart's 

 sweet music ends with the broken strings. Or sings to a lordlier harp 

 beyond our mortal sight! With the clogs of the mortal body forever shed. 

 Somewhere I trust, in the cosmic vastness, she liveth still, Wiser and statlier 

 grown, more beautiful there, But finding still in the good of others her own. 



For Her Friends and Aline, a volume of 380 pages of beautiful 

 poetry, was privately printed and distributed in 1915. In English 

 literature few more exquisite and appropriate poems have ever 

 been written by a scientist, or by a husband, to the memory of 

 his wife. These verses were proof of his genius, and of his 

 ability to wTite poetry expressive of a scientist's view of life and 

 nature. He also employed the prominent sculptor, U. S. J. Dunbar, 

 to prepare a bronze bust of her, and concluded his description of 

 her with the quotation, " Earth changes, but thy soul and God 

 stand sure." Pursuant to her request, Mrs. Smith's body was 

 cremated and her ashes scattered along the shore at Woods Hole. 



Smith promised Farlow that " after a while " he would " get 

 to work " again, since he knew that was " best " for him. One 

 of his accomplishments in 1907 was the preparation of a chart or 

 " society card," a standard form for describing and classifying 

 species of bacteria, which was approved that year by the Society 

 of American Bacteriologists.^*^ Since 1903 he had been working 

 with F. P. Gorham and F. D. Chester as members of a committee 

 to study the problem of classification. 



Frank R. Lillie, assistant director of the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory and professor of zoology and embryology at the Uni- 



'" Agnes J. Quirk and Edna H. Fawcett, Hydrogen-ion concentration vs. titratable 

 acidity in culture mediums. Jour. Infectious Diseases 33(1): 4, July 1923, and 

 reprint. Introduction written and contents approved by Smith. 



