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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    In cloifter’d air tainted with fteaming life, Let lofty ceilings grace your ample rooms; And ftill at azure noontide may your dome At every window drink the liquid sky. * - * r • • r \ r •- * * 325 Need we the funny fituation here. And theatres open to the fouth, commend ? Here, where the morning’s mifty breath infefts More than the torrid noon ? How fickly grow. How pale, the plants in thofe ill-fated vales 330 That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor never hope To feel, the genial vigor of the fun! While on the neighbouring hill the rofe inflames The verdant fpring; in virgin beauty blows 335 The tender lily, languifhingly fweet; O’er every hedge the wanton woodbine roves, And autumn ripens in the fummer’s ray. 2 Nor