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HOSPITAL SKETCHES

1916




HOSPITAL SKETCHES

BY

ROBERT SWAIN PEABODY


          BOSTON & NEW YORK
          HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
          _The Riverside Press Cambridge_
          1916




          COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY ROBERT SWAIN PEABODY
          ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
          _Published December 1916_


          "_Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
            Enwrought with golden and silver light,
            The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
            Of night and light and the half light;
            I would spread the cloths under your feet:
            But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
            I have spread my dreams under your feet;
            Tread softly because you tread on my dreams._"
                                               W. B. YEATS.




NOTE


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS are made to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for
permission to use a passage from Edith Wharton's _Fighting France_ and
to The Macmillan Company for the use of the poem "Aedh wishes for the
Cloths of Heaven," by W. B. Yeats.




CONTENTS


  INTRODUCTION                                              ix

  VIEW FROM THE HOSPITAL TERRACE                             1

  UPTHORPE-CUM-REGIS
      I. The Minster and the Meadows                         3
     II. The Church Yard                                     7
    III. The Village                                        11
     IV. The Hall                                           15
      V. Trong's Almshouses                                 19

  RANCONEZZO
     VI. The Town and the Lake                              23
    VII.