{"id":5847,"date":"2018-11-09T15:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2018-11-09T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:09:46","slug":"poetry-of-war-sir-ronald-ross-and-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2018\/11\/09\/poetry-of-war-sir-ronald-ross-and-the-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry of War: Sir Ronald Ross and the First World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Ronald Ross is best known for being the discoverer of the malaria vector in 1897. His discovery brought him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902, the first Briton to be awarded the prize in Medicine. What is less known is Ross\u2019 love for literature, in fact, Ross was a prolific writer of novels and in particular, poems.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his life, Ross\u2019 poems focused on subjects close to his heart, like the devastation of malaria as seen in Indian Fevers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Indian Fevers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In this, O Nature, yield I pray to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I pace and pace, and think and think, and take<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The fever\u2019d hands, and note down all I see,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That some dim distant light may haply break.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The painful faces ask, can we not cure?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We answer, No, not yet; we seek the laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">O God, reveal thro\u2019 all this thing obscure<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The unseen small, but million-murdering cause.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Written before his discovery in 1897, Indian Fevers demonstrates the frustration of Ross unable to help those who have been inflicted with malaria, knowing that discovering the cause of the disease can help with prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Ross in 1917, with the poem, \u2018The Anniversary\u2019, but here, Ross looks at how the world has forgotten the importance of his discovery and the lives it has saved since:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Anniversary <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Now twenty years ago<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This day we found the thing;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With science and with skill<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We found; then came the sting \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What we with endless labour won<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The thick world scorned:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not worth a word to-day-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not worth remembering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">O Gorgeous Gardens, Lands<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Of beauty where the Sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">His lordly raiment trails<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">All day with light enspun,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We found the death that lurk\u2019d beneath<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Your purple leaves,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We found your secret foe,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The million-murdering one;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And clapp\u2019d our hands and thought<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Your teeming width would ring<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With that great victory \u2013 more<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Than battling hosts can bring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ah, well-men laugh\u2019d. The years have<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Pass\u2019d;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The world is cold \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Some million lives a year,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not worth remembering!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ascended from below<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Men still remain too small;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With belly-wisdon big<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">They fight and bite and bawl,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">These larval angels! \u2013but when true<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Achievement comes-trifling doctor\u2019s matter-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">No consequence at all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5854\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2018\/11\/09\/poetry-of-war-sir-ronald-ross-and-the-first-world-war\/ross-rc-b-1909-1912-d-26-aug-1914-aged-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-5854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5854\" class=\"R.C. Ross, courtesy of Sherborne School Archives wp-image-5854 size-medium\" title=\"R.C. Ross, courtesy of Sherborne School Archives\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/Ross-RC-b-1909-1912-d-26-Aug-1914-aged-19-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"R.C. Ross, courtesy of Sherborne School Archives\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/Ross-RC-b-1909-1912-d-26-Aug-1914-aged-19-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/Ross-RC-b-1909-1912-d-26-Aug-1914-aged-19-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/Ross-RC-b-1909-1912-d-26-Aug-1914-aged-19-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R.C. Ross, courtesy of Sherborne School Archives\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Ross also wrote extensively about the First World War, in his poems, \u2018Duty\u2019, \u2018Farewells\u2019, \u2018Black August\u2019, and \u2018Apocalypse\u2019, poems about the devastation of war and the loss it brought. Yet, it is his poem, \u2018The Father\u2019, written in 1918, that shows us Ross\u2019 personal loss. In 1914, Sir Ronald Ross&#8217; third child, Ronald Campbell Ross, 2nd Lieutenant in The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), 2nd Battalion, died on 26<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> August at the : he was 19 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Father<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Come with me then, my son;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Thine eyes are wide for truth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I will give thee memories,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And thou shalt give me youth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The lake laps in silver,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The streamlet leaps her length:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I will give thee wisdom,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And thou shalt give me strength.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The mist is on the moorland,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The rain roughs the reed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I will give thee patience,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And thou shalt give me speed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">When lightings lash the skyline<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The shalt thou learn thy part:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And when the heav\u2019ns are direst,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For thee to give me heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Forthrightness I will teach thee;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The vision and the scope;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To hold the hand of honour:-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And thou shalt give me hope;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And when the heav\u2019ns are deepest<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And stars most bright above;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">May god then teach thee duty;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And thou shalt teach me love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I dream\u2019d, a wintry sunlight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fill\u2019d all the misted air,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And through the golden dead leaves<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">My son and I walk\u2019d there,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And said, \u201cWe twain together<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Will turn the fateful page;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I will give thee all things<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And thou shalt warm mine age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But sudden an Angel stood there<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And took his hand from mine;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The chill mist damp\u2019d and darken\u2019d;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">They faded line by line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The Angel cried in anger,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cThou shalt not lead, but I;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ye old men make the evils<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Whereof the young men die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A stronger hand than mine, son,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Shall guide \u2013 a greater truth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I will keep rememberance,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And thou shalt \u2013 keep thy youth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The lake laps in silver,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The streamlet leaps her length:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I have still my wisdom,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But thou, not thou, thy strength.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The fog fills the moorland,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The wind whips the reed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I have still more patience,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But where is now thy speed?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The heav\u2019ns are the blackest,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The stars hid above:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Oh, God hath taught thee duty,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">More deep than any love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Cold, cold November,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Tell me why thou are so sad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cWhen leaves are falling,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Shall I then, or thou, be glad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Why sigh so often,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">All ye passing gusts of wind?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cFor the pale and beauteous,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We have left, and thou, behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Why weep ye, grey clouds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">O\u2019er the black and blasted heath?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cFor the cold and beauteous,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That we see, and thou, beneath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Cold, cold, they lie there,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There our noble dear son lie;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But, hear ye Angels,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Did they not die in honour?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Cold, cold, the answer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">From the mocking mistral came,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cThey died in glory;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But their glory is your shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Ronald Ross is best known for being the discoverer of the malaria vector 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