The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Anon].

  • Samuel Garth
Date:
1700
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    While lifted Peftles, brandidi’d in the Air, ... Defcend in Peals, and Civil Wars declare. Loud Stroaks, with pounding Spice, the Fabrtck . ^ f rend. And Aromatick Clouds in Spires afcend. 5 So when the Cyclops5 o’er their Anvils fweat, / - . . » V And their fwoln Sinews ecchoing Blows repeat 5 From the Vulcano s grofs Eruptions rile. And curling Sheets of Smoke obfcure the Skies, - 1 The flumb’ring God amaz’d at this new Din, Thrice ftrove to rife, and thrice funk down agen. - * Then, half erect, he rubb’d his op’ning Eyes, And faulter d thus betwixt half Words and Sighs. How impotent a Deity am I! With Godhead born, but curs’d, that cannot die! B 4 / Thro’
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