At St Thomas's Hospital
ON Edward's brow no laurels cast a shade,
Nor at his feet are warlike spoils display'd;
Yet here, since first his bounty rais'd the pile,
The lame grow active, and the languid smile:
See this, ye chiefs, and, struck with envy, pine,
To kill is brutal, but to save, divine.
This statue is by Peter Scheemakers. It is one of two statues of Edward VI at the hospital.
Edward re-founded the hospital in 1551.
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