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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    N • ' 75 The Elk, o’erhung with woods $ and luch the ftream On whofe Arcadian banks I firft drew air, Liddal 5 till now, except in Doric lays Tun’d to her murmurs by her love-lick fwains, Unknown in long : Tho’ not a purer ftream, 80 Thro’ meads more flow’ry, or more romantic groves, Rolls toward the weftern main. Hail facred flood! May ftill thy hofpitable fwains be bleft In rural innocence; thy mountains ftill Teem with the fleecy race; thy tuneful woods 85 For ever flourilh 5 and thy vales look gay With painted meadows, and the golden grain! Oft, with thy blooming fons, when life was new, I x Sportive and petulant, and charm’d with toys, In thy tranfparent eddies have I lav’d : 90 Oft trac’d with patient fteps thy fairy banks. With