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HOSPITAL NURSERY, by                    
First Line: Purity - whiteness - spotlessness! Through glass
Last Line: Past -- present -- future -- in the hand of fate!
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hospitals; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery


Purity -- whiteness -- spotlessness! Through glass
I gaze lest some taint of the outer air
May stealthy, unpremeditated, pass
And harm the precious bundles lying there,
Swathed in their wrappings, soft as thistle-down.
Traces of kin peep from each tiny face.
Here is a wrinkled brow with thoughtful frown.
There anger rages, then to smiles gives place.
The Past lies here -- our buried roots displays.
The Present -- bundle wrapt, we're yet to see.
The Future, tendril-reaching divers ways --
The line of growth? Potentiality!

No wonder all the room's inviolate!
Past -- Present -- Future -- in the Hand of Fate!





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