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Editor’s Picks Issue 17
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Our Task Is to Live
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To Be Plucked by a Strange or Timid Hand
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The Beguines
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Carry Me
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The Soul of Medicine
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Readers Respond: Issue 17
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Family and Friends: Issue 17
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The Hunter
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Beyond Racial Reconciliation
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Science and the Soul
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Money-Free Medicine
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Patient Perspective
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On Being Ill
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On Eternal Health
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Adirondack Doctor
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Christ the Physician
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What’s a Body For?
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Begotten Not Made
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The End of Medicine
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Perfectly Human
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Let Me Stand
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All Sorts of Little Things
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The Measure of a Life Well Lived
![watercolor painting of WWI soldiers running into battle](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/pq17peters268hero.jpg?la=en)
Siegfried Sassoon, a British army captain during World War I, wrote his celebrated poem “Before the Battle” while on the front lines on June 25, 1916 – just days before the Battle of Somme. This visual interpretation of Sassoon’s words commemorates this year’s centenary of the end of the Great War.
![Siegfried Sassoon’s “Before the Battle” - A Visual Interpretation by Julian Peters](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed1.jpg?la=en)
![Music of Whispering Trees](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed2.jpg?la=en)
![Hushed by a Broad-Winged Breeze Where shaken water gleams;](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed3.jpg?la=en)
![and evening radiance falling with reedy bird-notes calling](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed4.jpg?la=en)
![O bear me safe through dark, you low-voiced streams.](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed5.jpg?la=en)
![I have no need to pray](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed6.jpg?la=en)
![that fear may pass away](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed7.jpg?la=en)
![I scorn the growl and rumble of the fight that summons me from cool](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed8.jpg?la=en)
![silence of march and pool and yellow lilies islanded in light](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed9.jpg?la=en)
![O river of stars and shadows, Lead me through the night.](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2018/17summermedicine/17peters/q17petersembed10.jpg?la=en)
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Lyse Godbout
Very nice work!