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  • This day relenting God
    Hath placed within my hand
    A wondrous thing; and God
    Be praised. At His command,
    Seeking His secret deeds
    With tears and toiling breath,
    I find thy cunning seeds,
    O million-murdering Death.
    I know this little thing
    A myriad men will save.
    O Death, where is thy sting?
    Thy victory, O Grave?
    Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

    Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)