PITY IN SILENCE IF YOU CANNOT COMMEND.
Must we degrade the noblest art on earth. And make the pool physician something lesa Thau we ourselves?' Better far were- death
To him than this should come to pati. To force hini, under penalty ol fhip. To heed each summons, night and day alike. Would be a gross injustice and a crime. And no irvo man can say it would be right. Who boasts o£ freedom should not make a, slave, For s'uverv robs the servant of his skill, De=troys all love, ami makes the sonl a grc-ve Of Mle corruption, full of all that's ill. To-day- the mob may lio-aI and- cry them down. Stiried up to fury by a fancied wiong; To-morrow seek their aid without a frown. When sickness comes, rage cannot tany long. Dunedin, May, 190-2. D. B V.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2516, 4 June 1902, Page 59
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151PITY IN SILENCE IF YOU CANNOT COMMEND. Otago Witness, Issue 2516, 4 June 1902, Page 59
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