Oliver Wendell Holmes (Оливер Уэнделл Холмс)

A Sentiment (A TRIPLE health to Friendship, Science, Art,)

A TRIPLE health to Friendship, Science, Art,
From heads and hands that own a common heart!
Each in its turn the others' willing slave,
Each in its season strong to heal and save.

Friendship's blind service, in the hour of need,
Wipes the pale face, and lets the victim bleed.
Science must stop to reason and explain;
ART claps his finger on the streaming vein.

But Art's brief memory fails the hand at last;
Then SCIENCE lifts the flambeau of the past.
When both their equal impotence deplore,
When Learning sighs, and Skill can do no more,
The tear of FRIENDSHIP pours its heavenly balm,
And soothes the pang no anodyne may calm
May 1, 1855.

1. Verses for After-Dinner Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1844
2. A Sentiment (THE pledge of Friendship! it is still divine)
3. The Moral Bully
4. The Flower of Liberty
5. A Poem for the Meeting of the American Medical Association at New York, May 5, 1853

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