I SAID when they handed me my diploma, I said to myself I will be good And wise and brave and helpful to others; I said I will carry the Christian creed Into the practice of medicine! Somehow the world and the other doctors Know what's in your heart as soon as you make This high-souled resolution. And the way of it is they starve you out. And no one comes to you but the poor. And you find too late that being a doctor Is just a way of making a living. And when you are poor and have to carry The Christian creed and wife and children All on your back, it is too much! That's why I made the Elixir of Youth, Which landed me in the jail at Peoria Branded a swindler and a crook By the upright Federal Judge! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WINTER PIECE by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE BALLAD OF ORISKANY by OBADIAH CYRUS AURINGER EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 1. THE MARVELLOUS SEED OF LOVE by PHILIP AYRES THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 9: GREAT WESTERN DAYS by T. BAKER THE CLUE by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE by LEVI BISHOP AN INVOCATION by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD I KNOW A BROOK by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SONG by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |