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What makes the Healing Art divine	A
The bitter drug we buy and sell	B
The brands that scorch the blades that shine	A
The scars we leave the cures we tell	B
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Are these thy glories holiest Art	C
The trophies that adorn thee best	D
Or but thy triumph's meanest part	C
Where mortal weakness stands confessed	D
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We take the arms that Heaven supplies	E
For Life's long battle with Disease	F
Taught by our various need to prize	E
Our frailest weapons even these	F
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But ah when Science drops her shield	G
Its peaceful shelter proved in vain	H
And bares her snow white arm to wield	G
The sad stern ministry of pain	H
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When shuddering o'er the fount of life	I
She folds her heaven anointed wings	J
To lift unmoved the glittering knife	I
That searches all its crimson springs	J
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When faithful to her ancient lore	K
She thrusts aside her fragrant balm	L
For blistering juice or cankering ore	K
And tames them till they cure or calm	L
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When in her gracious hand are seen	M
The dregs and scum of earth and seas	F
Her kindness counting all things clean	M
That lend the sighing sufferer ease	F
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Though on the field that Death has won	N
She save some stragglers in retreat	O
These single acts of mercy done	N
Are but confessions of defeat	O
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What though our tempered poisons save	P
Some wrecks of life from aches and ails	Q
Those grand specifics Nature gave	P
Were never poised by weights or scales	Q
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God lent his creatures light and air	R
And waters open to the skies	E
Man locks him in a stifling lair	R
And wonders why his brother dies	E
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In vain our pitying tears are shed	S
In vain we rear the sheltering pile	T
Where Art weeds out from bed to bed	S
The plagues we planted by the mile	T
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Be that the glory of the past	U
With these our sacred toils begin	V
So flies in tatters from its mast	U
The yellow flag of sloth and sin	V
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And lo the starry folds reveal	W
The blazoned truth we hold so dear	X
To guard is better than to heal	W
The shield is nobler than the spear	X

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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