Infancy, or the management of children, a didactic poem in six books / [Hugh Downman].

  • Hugh Downman
Date:
1788
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Credit: Infancy, or the management of children, a didactic poem in six books / [Hugh Downman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    infancy. 7; ' Witnefs my Friend! Who know’ft the human frame, ) £ach drug of cordial, each of healing power, I To me in vain admlniller’d, what toil I muil experience now, the Nymph to trace : Throughhermeand’ring walks! what partial chance 80 ] Should Ihe my languid homage not difdain! Yet, thy inciting voice j. the confcious thought ; Sprung from the love of kind, which tells Me, all i Will not be fruftrate, nor the darling wifhi ' Of public good be wholly unfulfill’d ; ( Some loitering fparks of that once brighter flame ; My foul enkindling, prompt me to a talk I Long interrupted: W^iere in flumbers deep It refts, t’ awaken the Oida6fic Lyre; With its’ more folemn notes to mingle tones po (So they to memory fall not to recur) Oft heard .of yore, as t’ ward the lucid fount I flole, not unforbidden j tones which pleafe Heighten’d the more by contraft, and engage Amufive the charm’d ear, till it imbibe Inftruaion with delight, till melody ^ Not the chief objea reem,.its» liquid voice. Yielding to reafons? energy divine. Or Cloathing now, of Heat, and ColdiWe fing, Unanimating themes j but which require 100 Th’
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