Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies ... / [John Rollo].

  • John Rollo
Date:
1783
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies ... / [John Rollo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C6) Deep in the night the maffy locuft fheds, Quench my hot limbs ; or lead me thro’ the maze, Embowering endlefs, of the Indian fig ; Or thrown at gayer eafe on fome fair brow, Let me behold, by breezy murmurs cool’d, Broad o’er my head the verdant cedar wave, And high palmetos lift their graceful fhade ; Or, ftretch’d amid thefe orchards of the fun, Give me to drain the cocoa’s milky bow], And from the palm to draw its frefhening wine, More bounteous far than all the frantic juice Which Bacchus pours. Nor on its flender twigs, Low bending, be the full pomegranate fcorn’d ; Nor, creepin ethro? the woods, the gelid race Of berries. Oftin humble ftation dwells Unboaftful Worth, above faftidious Pomp : Witnefs, thou beft anana! thou, the pride. Of vegetable life, beyond whate’er The poets imag’d in the Golden Age : Quick let me ftrip thee of thy tufty coat, Spread thy ambrofial flores, and feaft with Jove ! | as WHEN
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