Fear among Medical Personnel: “They Take Not Their Courage from Anger.” In a vision of the night I saw them, In the battles of the night. ’Mid the roar and the reeling shadows of blood They were moving like light… With scrutiny calm, and with fingers Patient as swift They bind up the hurts and the pain-writhen Bodies uplift… But they take not their courage from anger That blinds the hot being; They take not their pity from weakness; Tender, yet seeing… They endure to have eyes of the watcher In hell and not swerve For an hour from the faith that they follow, The light that they serve.
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