South Highland Infirmary School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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lVho is it that with pleziszlnt smiles Your gloomy feeling oft heguiles. Aml make you think of summer skies? For stars in heaven are her eyes: The Nurse! .-Xml when the llaggrlrcl ghouls of gloon Gather uhout you in your room, lVith cleecls to clezith :tml seals of floom :Xre put to rout-tell me hy whom? The Nurse! The Nurse l'Vho, when this clreziclful time is .Xml You cling to :is Zl fouml l,enore, .-Xml when the long, long night is o'er, NVho is it first that ope's the floor, .Xml brings with her the light of morn, .Xml mulfes the clay not seem so clrawn? 'llhe Nurse! XVho, when the hotly is rzielierl with pain .Xml burning fever iills the brain, D1'z1u's you hzlelc to life again . lliith soothing toueh ziml gentle mien? The Nurse' o'er, the cloetor sziys he'll eome no more. Sent you from at heavenly sht ? , The Nurse! ' -lleatriee ll. Tait. lleclieziteml to the nurses of the South llighlamls Infirmary. .Xugust 330, lfll l. - .a -r ' ' - wry-- WY 43

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A doctor on a winter's night Determined that he would invite A brother doctor in to smoke, Opened his mouth-and thus he spoke: Gossip and scandal my heart holds dear, CA curious thingj, I'd like to hear, If you had any trouble in making sounds,U If you had with Miss I-I. any i'ups and downs V' The dear man sighed, and a vague unrest, And a nameless longing filled his breastg A longing he hardly dared to own, For 'twas better luck than he had known. That she should be moved and sent away, Far from intrusion by night or day g V Une fuss we had, 'twas quite a jokeg I'll tell you of it while we smoke. 'Twas 'bout a chart and an Halternate dose,', And 7Q'l'L'l'lC we talked the ati' grew close 5 But many others there 7fI11.gl'LZi have been Of which to tell by tongue or pen. That one among this z'l1wz'1'ty-fain' Should please these doctors o'er and And even now escape their hisses, A Reminiseenee One day the door she opened wide- My time I took, then walked inside: I thank her? No, not much, flze lmrizfy: Why should I thank a nurse on duty? Why to them must l be polite? And Aslileiglz Aslzlzzfrst dues -rulzrzfs rlylit And Yande Boyerts' dear blue eyes Look out in their innocent surprise. And speaking of nurses. let me say. VVhat do you think of them. I pray? And then, these two with din' 1'cfli'vf1'n11. Let not a nurse escape discretion. Miss Harvy, the only mentioned one. Wlhose praises they sincerely sung: A form more fair. a face more sweet. Ne'er hath it been out lot to meet. Her modest answer and graceful air Shows her wise and good as she is fair. Be joyful, Q, you sister nurses. And with thanksgiving read these verses. o'er, I Ye Stars and Sf7'I.f70S, and lilfle fislzesl

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