Our Lady With A Lamp
Romance image centred
solitary shining light;
glowing beacon blazing
angelic in delirious night;
shimmer linen lamp glow
shrine associations shrive;
mourn most assorted supplanted
absolved patients disease died.
Despite loving nurse care tendered
wounds infected could not survive;
in enfilade unhygienic carnage age
of gross medical delinquency...
Nightingale's matronly heart saintly
balm in experiences rendered ugly.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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