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The Physician

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She comes when I am grieving and doth say,     "Child, here is that shall drive your grief away."     When I am hopeless, kisses me and stirs     My breast with the strong lively courage of hers.     Proud--she will humble me with but a word,     Or with mild mockery at my folly gird;     Fickle--she holds me with her loyal eyes;     Remorseful--tells of neighbouring Paradise;     Envious--"Be not so mad, so mad," she saith,     "Envied and envier both race with Death"     She my good Angel is: and who is she?--     The soul's divine Physician, Memory.

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"She comes when I am grieving and doth say,..."

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