IN probing Life, wise Doctors look
On it, as men must look on Life
Who, in its very breath
Browsing Category: Death
The Doctor’s Message
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MY little patient, gone so soon before,
To that mysterious, much desired shore;
Whenyou come there, where yet I hope to be,
-hat will you tell the blessed Lord for me ?
The Young Medic and the Old
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Deacon Jones was always ailing,
And his many aches bewailing,
And old Doctor Grampus failing…
A Hospital Story
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WHITE faces, pained and thin,
Gathered new pain — as at some sight of slaughter-
And waiting nurses, with their cups of water,
Shrank, when they saw the bargeman ‘s little daughter…
Epitaph
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HERE lies a fool flat on his back,
The victim of a cancer quack;
Who lost his money and his life,
By plaster, caustic, and by knife.
The case was this — a pimple rose…
The Remedy Worse Than The Disease
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I sent for Ratcliffe, was so ill,
That other doctors gave me over…
The Blind Man
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The beauties of nature were once dear to me,
But they have all vanished as I cannot see;
Their beauty and form are all stamped in my mind,
But I cannot see them, because I am blind…
Dead
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A knock is at her door, but she is weak;
Strange dews have washed the paint streaks from her cheek;
She does not rise, but, ah, this friend is known,
And knows that he will find her all alone…
The Healer
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So stood of old the holy Christ
Amidst the suffering throng;
With whom His lightest touch…
The Doctors.
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The selfsame patient put to test
Two doctors, Fear-the-worst and Hope-the-best.
The latter hoped; the former did maintain…