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

  • Samuel Garth
Date:
1714
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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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    A golden,Globe plac'd high with artful Skill, Scorns, to the diftant Sight, a gilded Pill: h his Pile was, by the Pious Patron’s Aim, Rais’d for a Ufe as Noble as its Frame*. Nor did the Learn’d Society decline The Propagat'on of that .great Defign; In all her Mazes, Nature’s Face they view’d, And as.fhe difappear’d, their Search purfu’d. Wrapt in the Shades of Night the Goddefs Ives Yet to the Learn’d unveils her dark Difguife, But (buns the grofs Accefs of vulgar Eyes. Now fl e unfolds the faint, and dawning Strife Of infant Atoms kindling into Life : Flow dudlile Matter new Meanders takes, And (lender Trains of twilling Fibres makes. And how the Vifcous Peeks a clofer Tone, By juft degrees to harden into Bone; While the more Loofe flow from the vital Urn, And in full Tides of Purple Streams return j Flow lambent Flames from Life’s bright Lamp arile, And dart in Emanations through the Eyesj Flow from each Sluice a gentle Torrent puurs. To flake a fcav’rifh Fleat with ambient Show’rs. Whence, their Mechanick Pow'rs, the Spirits claim, How great their Force, how delicate their Frame: How the fame Nerves are fafliion'd to fuftain The greateft Pleafure and the greateft Pain. Why bileous Juice a Golden Light puts on. And Floods of Chyle in Silver Currents run. Flow the dim Speck of Entity began T’exert its primogenia,!, Fleat and ftretch to Man,
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