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Preserving HEALTH.
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To breathe, and in its turn the sprightly north:
And may once more the circling seasons rule
The year; not mix in every monstrous day.
Mean time, the moist malignity to shun
275Of burthen'd skies; mark where the dry champain
Swells into chearful hills; where Marjoram
And Thyme, the love of bees, perfume the air;
And where the[1] Cynorrhodon with the rose
For fragrance vies; for in the thirsty soil
280Most fragrant breathe the aromatic tribes.
There bid thy roofs high on the basking steep
Ascend, there light thy hospitable fires.
And let them see the winter morn arise,
The summer evening blushing in the west;
285While with umbrageous oaks the ridge behind
O'erhung, defends you from the blust'ring north,
- ↑ The wild rose, or that which grows upon the wild briar.
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