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James Russell Lowell - Joseph Winlock
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Shy soul and stalwart, man of patient will
Through years one hair`s-breadth on our Dark to gain,
Who, from the stars he studied not in vain,
Had learned their secret to be strong and still,
Careless of fames that earth`s tin trumpets fill;
Born under Leo, broad of build and brain,
While others slept, he watched in that hushed fane
Of Science, only witness of his skill:
Sudden as falls a shooting-star he fell,
But inextinguishable his luminous trace
In mind and heart of all that knew him well.
Happy man`s doom! To him the Fates were known
Of orbs dim hovering on the skirts of space,
Unprescient, through God`s mercy, of his own!
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