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  • For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.

    Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press