The Physician Poem by John Freeman

She comes when I am grieving and doth say,
'Child, here is that shall drive your grief away.'
When I am hopeless, kisses me and stirs
My breast with the strong lively courage of hers.
Proud--she will humble me with but a word,
Or with mild mockery at my folly gird;
Fickle--she holds me with her loyal eyes;
Remorseful--tells of neighbouring Paradise;
Envious--'Be not so mad, so mad,' she saith,
'Envied and envier both race with Death'
She my good Angel is: and who is she?--
The soul's divine Physician, Memory.