To Doc Wylie (An Eccentric Bush Doctor)
By Henry Lawson
Though doctors may your name discard
And say you physicked vilely,
I would I were as good a bard
As you a doctor, Wylie!
How often, when your skill subdued
The fever ranging highly,
You won a bushmans gratitude,
Though little more, Doc Wylie!
How oft across the regions wide
Where scrub for many a mile lay
The bushman rode, as bushmen ride,
To seek your aid, Doc Wylie!
But now, when bushmans wife or child
Lies ill and suffering direly,
Hell need to ride a weary while
Before he finds Doc Wylie.
I hope where they have made your bed,
And where these verses I lay,
Theyll raise a board above your head,
And write your name, Doc Wylie!