The symptoms as to warrant our recourse

To your skill, Doctor! Yet since just a touch

"Of pulse, a taste of breath, has all the force

With you of long investigation claimed

By others,—tracks an ailment to its source

"Intuitively,—may we ask unblamed

What from this pimple you prognosticate?"

"Death!" was the answer, as he saw and named

The coucher by the sick man's head. "Too late

You send for my assistance. I am bold