Full circle [poem]
Media
Part of The Cross
- Title
- Full circle [poem]
- Creator
- Hyland, L. F.
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1952
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- 52 THE CROSS play. Now he has a semi-active hospital job, and his weight is down. Swimming and floating in water, wearing inflate^ swimming trunks, may be helpful to certain patients disabled by multiple sclerosis. The gently supported movements in water sometimes help restore muscles, although this is no treatment for multiple sclerosis itself. Mrs. Haberman was at the hospital recently. One boy, a sufferer from multiple sclerosis, was standing in the pool. He waved to her. "Look," he shouted. Then he walked, painfully but steadily, up the ramp of the pool and stood before her. "I did that for you, Mrs. Haberman," he said, "for you and the Four Chaplains." So the memory of these gallant men lives on. Every day, in France, Italy, or the United States, some victim of World War II finds a reason to be grateful to the four chaplains, the men who, through dying, helped others to live. FULL CIRCLE At five, a lad nomed Reggie Brooks Was quite content with picture books. At six, in school, his mind was .stirred To recognize the printed word. At twelve, quite young, he undertook Courageously to read a book. At nineteen, Reggie finished colleges With quite a bit. of stored up knowledge. At twenty-one, his stote is this: He's back in childhood's aimless bliss. For now this educated Brooks Again reads none but picture books. Like Life and Look and Pic and See, His mind content with atrophy. L. F. Hyland From The Ligourian