THE BOROUGH. LETTER XVII. THE HOSPITAL AND GOVERNORS. Blessed be the man who provideth for the sick and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in time of trouble. Quas dederis, solas semper habebis opes.- MARTIAL. Nil negat, et sese vel non poscentibus offert. - CLAUDIAN Decipias alios verbis voltuque benigno; Nam mihi jam notus dissimulator eris. - MARTIAL. Christian Charity anxious to provide for future as well as pre sent Miseries Hence the Hospital for the Diseased The Building: how crected- The Patrons and Governors Eusebius The more active Manager of Business a moral and correct Contributor · One of different Description - Good, the Result, however intermixed with Imperfection. 271 THE BOROUGH. LETTER XVII. THE HOSPITAL AND GOVERNORS. AN ardent spirit dwells with Christian love, And plans relief for coming miseries. Hence yonder Building rose: on either side Far stretch'd the wards, all airy, warm, and wide; And every ward has beds by comfort spread, And smooth'd for him who suffers on the bed: There all have kindness, most relief,—for some Is cure complete,-it is the sufferer's home: Fevers and chronic ills, corroding pains, Each accidental mischief man sustains; Fractures and wounds, and wither'd limbs and lame, And heal'd with rapture live, or soothed by comfort die. See! one relieved from anguish, ana to-day 'Tis summer now; all objects gay and new, He thinks what pain, what danger they enclose; The wish that Roman necks in one were found (1) That he who form'd the wish might deal the wound, (1) [Caligula, being in a rage at the people, for favouring a party in the Circensian games in opposition to him, cried out, "I wish the Roman people had but one neck."] This man had never heard; but of the kind, All but his own, in one right-hand to grow, Then busy Vanity sustain'd her part, "And much," she said, "it moved her tender heart; Then Science came-] Patrons there are, and Governors, from whom (1) [It was never doubted by Mr. Crabbe's family, that Eusebius was designed for a portraiture of Burke.] |