Scutari
Anon
Genre: | Poetry |
Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Heroism, Gender |
An implicit eulogy on Florence Nightingale, describing her in such radiant terms as 'one bright star' holding a 'blessed path', a 'woman, fragile, pale, and tall' whose 'saintly work' moves 'Through miles of pallets, thickly laid / With sickness in its foulest guise. And pain, in forms to have dismayed, / Man's science-hardened eyes'. |
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