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... read and listen to what people think about the work they do.

David K. Gilchrist

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Teachers make a difference

A self-important CEO,
While partying in town,

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No errors, no runs!

You’ll never dent a fender, if you never drive a car.
But if you never chance it, well, you won’t go very far.

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Help for the task

Lord, You have set us to this task: Now work through us, is all we ask.

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The Clergyman Trap

The Reverend Doug was a long, lean lad.
When he took to his task in the North.

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They live with courage

None can deny the suffering the service people face.
Their most unpleasant duties, in battle and on base.

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Nurse Eleanor

Florence Nightingale - a nurse - pictured in her mind the curse
Of wound uncared for, gangrened limb, soldiers lying tortured, grim.

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With my boots on.

O spare me years of agonising uselessness --
Of invalid dependence on my kin;

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Twenty-nine

29 Faces before me, all of them brown as the earth.
29 Facefuls of mischief, each with a good dose of mirth.

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