James Russell Lowell

“ With Mrs. D. to head it!
For, if the Council have their way,
We've merely had, as Frenchmen say,
The painful maladie du pay,
While they get all the credit!
Boys, henceforth doomed to spell Trustees,
Think not it ends in double ease
To those who hold the office;
Shun Science as you would Despair,
Sit not in Cassiopeia's chair,
Nor hope from Berenice's hair
To bring away your trophies!
This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ The Trustee's Lament
Per aspera ad astra.
(Scene: Outside the gate of the Astronomical Observatory at Albany.)
There was a time when I was blest;
The stars might rise in East or West
With all their sines and wonders ”