<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386659" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Florence Nightingale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">UPON the whitewashed walls<br>A woman's shadow falls,<br>A woman walketh o'er the darksome floors. <br>A soft, angelic smile<br>Lighteth her face the while,<br>In passing through the dismal corridors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now and then there slips<br>A word from out her lips,<br>More sweet and grateful to those listening ears<br>Than the most plaintive tale<br>Of the sad nightingale,<br>Whose name and tenderness this woman bears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her presence in the room<br>Of agony and gloom,<br>No fretful murmurs, no coarse words profane;<br>For while she standeth there,<br>All words are hushed save prayer;<br>She seems God's angel weeping o'er man's pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And some of them arise,<br>With eager, tearful eyes,<br>From off their couch to see her passing by.<br>Some, e'en too weak for this,<br>Can only stoop and kiss<br>Her shadow, and fall back content to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No monument of stone<br>Needs this heroic one,—<br>Her name is graven on each noble heart;<br>And in all after years<br>Her praise will be the tears<br>Which at that name from quivering lids will start.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those who live not now,<br>To see the sainted brow,<br>And the angelic smile before it flits for aye,<br>They in the future age<br>Will kiss the storied page<br>Whereon the shadow of her life will lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emma+Lazarus">Emma Lazarus</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386659" data-title="Florence Nightingale de Emma Lazarus" data-description="UPON the whitewashed walls A woman's shadow falls, A woman walketh o'er the darksome floors. A soft, angelic smile Lighteth her face the while, In passing through the dismal corridors. And now and then there slips A word from out her lips, More ..."></div> </div> </div>

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