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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    Or tame its fayage genius to the grace Of carelefs fweet rufticity, that Teems The amiable refult of happy chance, no Is to create 3 and gives a god-like joy, Which every year improves. Nor thou difdain To check the lawlefs riot of the trees, To plant the grove, or turn the barren mould. O happy he! whom, when his years decline, 115 (His fortune and his fame by worthy means Attain’d, and equal to his moderate mind ; His life approv’d by all the wife and good, Even envied by the vain) the peaceful groves « «. Of Epicurus, from this ftormy world, 120 Receive to reft 5 of all ungrateful cares Abfolv’d, and facred from the felfifh crowd. Happieft of men! if the fame foil invites A chofen few, companions of his youth, Once fellow-rakes perhaps, now rural friends$ With