The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong].

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1744
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    95 Imbib’d, would poifon the balfamic blood, And roufe the heart to every fever’s rage. While yet you breathe, away! the rural wilds Invite; the mountains call you, and the vales, The woods, the ftreams, and each ambrofial breeze 100 That-fans the ever undulating sky ; A kindly sky! whofe foft’ring power regales Man, beaft, and all the vegetable reign. Find then fome woodland fcene where nature fmiles Benign, where all her honeft children thrive. 105 To us there wants not many a happy feat 5 Look round the fmiling land, fuch numbers rife We hardly fix, bewilder’d in our choice. See where enthron’d in adamantine ftate, Proud of her bards, imperial Windfor fits ; no There chufe thy feat, in fome afpiring grove Fall by the ilowly-winding Thames; or where Broader Ihe laves fair Richmond’s green retreats, (Richmond