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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    Lab’ring with ftorms in heapy mountains rife Th’ imbattled clouds, as if the Stygian (hades 255 Had left the dungeon of eternal night, Till black with thunder all the fouth defcends. Scarce in a fliowerlefs day the heavens indulge Our melting clime 5 except the baleful eaft Withers the tender fpring, and fourly checks 260 The fancy of the year. Our fathers talk Of fummers, balmy airs, and skies ferene. Good heaven! for what unexpiated crimes This difmal change! The brooding elements Do they, your powerful minifters of wrath, 265 Prepare fome fierce exterminating plague? Or is it fix’d in the Decrees above That lofty Albion melt into the main ? Indulgent nature ! O diflolve this gloom ! Bind in eternal adamant the winds 270 That drown or wither: Give the genial weft 2 To