Hospital Sketches - Robert Swain Peabody

"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.

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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.

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.	Piazza Garibaldi	[27]
VIII.	Piazza Cavour	[31]
IX.	North Door of the Duomo	[35]
X.	Interior of the Duomo	[39]
XI.	The Villa of the Cardinal Schalchi-Visconti	[43]
XII.	Santa Prassede, the Cardinal's Church	[47]
XIII.	The Cloisters of S^ta Prassede	[51]
XIV.	The Tomb of the Cardinal in S^ta Prassede	[55]
ROCHER-ST.-POL
XV.	The Town and the River Merle	[59]
XVI.	La Grande Rue and La Place de la République	[63]
XVII.	L'escalier de Jacob	[67]
XVIII.	Le Parvis de S^te Frédigonde	[71]
XIX.	Interior of the Church of S^te Frédigonde	[75]
XX.	Sacristy Steps in the Church of S^te Frédigonde	[79]
XXI.	The Château Beaumesnil	[83]
XXII.	La Tour de la Dame Blanche	[87]
AEGINASSOS
XXIII.	The Temple and the Forum	[91]
XXIV.	The Temple and the Forum	[95]

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