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Dedication: for the nurses at Northside Clinic
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Author's note: This title poem is set in the central courtyard of the Sydney Hospital where nurse training in Australia began on site in 1868. The brick and sandstone Gothic Revival Nightingale Wing of 1869, with its colourful fountain, was built to the plans of Florence Nightingale to house the first nursing school.
The nightingale has also been used as a symbol of the poet or their poetry. For some romantic poets, the nightingale took on qualities of the muse. Coleridge and Wordsworth saw the nightingale as a pure instance of natural poetic creation.
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