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For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain 'the sublime' In the old sense. Wrong from the start— No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807—December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists.

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