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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    The greener juices are by toil fubdu’d. Mellow’d, and fubtilis’d ; the vapid old Expell’d, and all the rancor of the blood. Come, my companions, ye who feel the charms 45 Of nature and the year ; come, let us ftray Where chance or fancy leads our roving walk : Come, while the foft voluptuous breezes fan The fleecy heavens, enwrap the limbs in balm, And fhed a charming languor o’er the foul. O O 50 Nor when bright Winter fows with prickly froft The vigorous ether, in unmanly warmth Indulge at home; nor even when Eurus’ blafts This way and that convolve the lab’ring woods. My liberal walks, fave when the skies in rain 55 Or fogs relent, no leafon fhould confine Or to the cloifter’d gallery or arcade. Go, climb the mountain 5 from th’ etherial (burce Imbibe the recent gale. The chearful mom Beams