PAIN SOLILOQUY
Pain Soliloquy By C. J. Buell, President Minnesota Health League I I am Pain--most people hate me, Think me cruel, call me heartless, Study ways to bribe and fool me, Try by every means to slay me, Dope themselves with anaesthetics, Fill themselves with patent nostrums, Call the doctor with his poisons, Seek the Christian Science healer, Beat the tom-tom of the savage, Build the altar, burn the incense, Seek to sate the wrath of devils, Pray to saints, and Gods, and angels; Not to cure the ills within them, Not to cleanse and purify them, Just to calm the pain that hurts them, Just to-kill the guide that warns them. II Pain am I, but when you know me, When you once have learned my secret, How I come to help and bless you, Warn you, guide you, teach and lead you When you know my loving nature, How at first I gently twinge you, Lightly twinge you as a warning, Hoping thus, by kind reminder, You will bear my voice and listen-- Sure am I that when you know me, You wil