Letters Home

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    My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel—not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.
    Clara Barton (1821–1912)

    O happy harbour of the saints,
    O sweet and pleasant soil,
    In thee no sorrow may be found
    No grief, no care, no toil.
    Unknown. Jerusalem, My Happy Home (l. 5–8)