Saturday, 8 December 2012
Longfellow: Agassiz
Posted on 13:48 by Unknown
Louis Agassiz giving a lecture, 1870
source: Schweizerischer Beobachter
(http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/A/AGA/louis-agassiz.html)
no copyright infringement intended
Agassiz had been among the best friends of Longfellow, and his death was a hard blow for the poet.
I stand again on the familiar shore,
And hear the waves of the distracted sea
Piteously calling and lamenting thee,
And
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