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A HOSPITAL GOOD-MORNING, by                    
First Line: Tis five of the clock and the birds are waking
Last Line: The cheery, sweet hospital nurse.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Drugs, Prescription


'Tis five of the clock and the birds are waking;
The breeze steals in so fresh and pure;
Slumber, sweet, has at last enswathed me—
"'Tis time to take your temperature."

'Tis six of the clock and the morn is breaking;
The glorious sun rides up apace;
The arms of Morpheus again are calling—
But now it's time to wash one's face.

'Tis seven o'clock but amid the bustle
My spirit wings toward Slumber's gates,
When, lo, a voice at my side arouses
And tells me that my breakfast waits.

Her eyes are bright; her face is smiling;
Fit theme for most enchanting verse;
Her role it is to keep one from sleeping—
The cheery, sweet hospital nurse.





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