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SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL, by                    
First Line: Tenements their regimental lines
Last Line: Where death lays down, and birth takes up the task.
Subject(s): Hospitals


Tenements their regimental lines
Move down smooth hills to bind a smoke-walled street
Where trolleys drone their shrill ear-splitting whines,
And cars rush past in lanes of traffic fleet.
Down stone stairs worn by countless anxious feet,
Where white cowled sisters watch life's vigil slow,
Visitors pour slowly to the street
One by one as hours come and go.
Some are sallow cheeked, long lined with grief;
Some are joyous, young, their lips aglow;
Some are lifted by a hoped belief
Though death clutch chilling hands and pulses slow;
Here life stands stricken of his tragic mask
Where death lays down, and birth takes up the task.





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