Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SCIENCE, HELP!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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SCIENCE, HELP!, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Science, science, quickly speed!
Last Line: Science, science, quickly come!
Subject(s): Science; Scientists


Science, Science, quickly speed!
Save us in our bitter need!
See us, see the pallid folk
Bent beneath a groaning yoke,
Body, mind, and spirit bent
Under woes malevolent.
Hot consumption slays us here
With alternate hope and fear;
Gnawing cancers slowly eat,
Racking gout enchains our feet,
Fevers light their funeral fire,
Palsies shake and never tire,
Fierce neuralgias shoot their pains,
Madness leaps upon our brains,
Epilepsy faints and foams,
Typhoid lurks within our homes,
Thick diphtheria chokes our breath,
Cold pneumonia beckons death,
And a thousand ills beside
Whelm us in a murky tide.
Science, Science, quickly speed!
Save us in our bitter need!
For the world is very fair,
And our work is waiting there,
And our dear ones, oh, so white
Are their faces in the night!
And we're waiting eagerly,
Science, for the remedy.
Oh, are half the marvels true,
Hopeful, we have heard from you,
That unconquered brain of yours
Soon will find a thousand cures,
Stop the carnage, raise the weak,
Bring the rose to every cheek!
Oh, in our time do it all!
It is we that moan and call.
What to us are pestilence,
Fevers, death, a decade hence?
It is we that faint and fear,
We, and those that hold us dear.
In our day avert the doom;
Science, Science, quickly come!





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