University of Virginia Library

TO MONSIEUR PASTEUR.

[Upon his Discovery of Inoculation for Hydrophobia.]

O good Monsieur Pasteur! your humanized art
Has thrilled every brain, and has touched every heart;
Man's friendliest beast—by disease tortured sore,
Henceforth is a poisonous reptile no more;
Now please find a cure to our maladies when
This poor world is bitten by mad-minded men!