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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    •T* . % And bleak affliction of the peeviffl eaft. O ! when the growling winds contend, and all The founding foreft fluctuates in the ftorm, 290 To fink in warm repofe, and hear the din Howl o’er the fteady battlements, delights Above the luxury of vulgar fleep. The murmuring rivulet, and the hoarfer (train Of waters rufhing o’er the flippery rocks, 295 Will nightly lull you to ambrofial reft. To pleafe the fancy is no trifling good, ' 1 Where health is ftudied ; for whatever moves / ' ^ ♦ The mind with calm delight, promotes the juft And natural movements of th’ harmonious frame. c • 300 Befides, the fportive brook for ever (hakes The trembling air; that floats from hill to hill, From vale to mountain, with inceflant change Of pureft element, refrefhing (till Your airy feat, and uninfeCted Gods. Chiefly