Next year, remember, among the loftiest flights

Of their philosophy, that the living truth

Is here on earth if we could only see it.

This, this at least, all true Asclepiads know.

Remember, always, in that battle of words,

The truth that father handed down to son

Through the long line of men that served their kind

From Æsculapius, father of us all,

To you his own descendant:—naught avails

In science, till the light you seize from heaven