Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO DR. SCHOMBERG, OF BATH, by PAUL WHITEHEAD


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TO DR. SCHOMBERG, OF BATH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To schomberg quoth death, 'I your patient will have'
Last Line: Since he and the college had been in alliance.
Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors


TO Schomberg quoth Death, "I your patient will have;"
To Death replied Schomberg, "My patient I'll save."
Then Death seiz'd his arrow, the Doctor his pen,
And each wound the one gave, t'other heal'd it again;
'Till Death swore he never had met such defiance,
Since he and the College had been in alliance.





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