<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510847" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Fathers of Old</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Excellent herbs had our fathers of old--<br>Excellent herbs to ease their pain--<br>Alexanders and Marigold,<br>Eyebright, Orris, and Elecampane--<br>Basil, Rocket, Valerian, Rue,<br>( Almost singing themselves they run)<br>Vervain, Dittany, Call-me-to-you--<br>Cowslip, Melilot, Rose of the Sun.<br>Anything green that grew out of the mould<br>Was an excellent herb to our fathers of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wonderful tales had our fathers of old,<br>Wonderful tales of the herbs and the stars-<br>The Sun was Lord of the Marigold,<br>Basil and Rocket belonged to Mars.<br>Pat as a sum in division it goes--<br>(Every herb had a planet bespoke)--<br>Who but Venus should govern the Rose?<br>Who but Jupiter own the Oak?<br>Simply and gravely the facts are told<br>In the wonderful books of our fathers of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wonderful little, when all is said,<br>Wonderful little our fathers knew.<br>Half their remedies cured you dead--<br>Most of their teaching was quite untrue--<br>&quot;Look at the stars when a patient is ill.<br>(Dirt has nothing to do with disease),<br>Bleed and blister as much as you will,<br>Bister and bleed him as oft as you please.&quot;<br>Whence enormous and manifold<br>Errors were made by our fathers of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet when the sickness was sore in the land,<br>And neither planets nor herbs assuaged,<br>They took their lives in their lancet-hand<br>And, oh, what a wonderful war they waged!<br>Yes, when the crosses were chalked on the door-<br>(Yes, when the terrible dead-cart rolled! )<br>Excellent courage our fathers bore--<br>None too learned, but nobly bold<br>Into the fight went our fathers of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it be certain, as Galen says--<br>And sage Hippocrates holds as much--<br>&quot;That those afflicted by doubts and dismays<br>Are mightily helped by a dead man's touch,&quot;<br>Then, be good to us, stars above!<br>Then, be good to us, herbs below!<br>We are afflicted by what we can prove,<br>We are distracted by what we know.<br>So-ah, so!<br>Down from your heaven or up from your mould<br>Send us the hearts of our Fathers of old!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510847" data-title="Our Fathers of Old de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Excellent herbs had our fathers of old-- Excellent herbs to ease their pain-- Alexanders and Marigold, Eyebright, Orris, and Elecampane-- Basil, Rocket, Valerian, Rue, ( Almost singing themselves they run) Vervain, Dittany, Call-me-to-you-- Cowsli..."></div> </div> </div>

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