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To every caprice of the sky; nor thwart
275The genius of your clime: For from the blood
Least fickle rise the recremental steams,
And least obnoxious to the styptic air,
Which breathe thro' straiter and more callous pores.
The temper'd Scythian hence, half-naked treads
280His boundless snows, nor rues th' inclement heaven;
And hence our painted ancestors defied
The East; nor curs'd, like us, their fickle sky.

The body moulded by the clime, indures
Th' Equator heats, or Hyperborean frost:
285Except by habits foreign to its turn,
Unwise, you counteract its forming pow'r.
Rude at the first, the winter shocks you less
By long acquaintance: Study then your sky,
Form to its manners your obsequious frame,
290And learn to suffer what you cannot shun.