. The art of preserving health : a poem. ade ? The tower that long hadfloodThe crufh of thunder, and the warring winds,Shook by the flow, but fure deftroyer, Time,Now hangs in doubtful ruins oer its flinty pyramids, and walls of brafs, 540 Defcend ; the Babylonian fpires are funk ;Achaia, Rome, and Egypt, moulder makes the ftable tyranny of thrones. And 4o The A R T, tec, B. II. And tottering empires rum by their own huge rotundity we tread grows old •, 545 And all thofe worlds that roll around the fun,The fun himfelf fhall die; and ancient NightAgain involve the
. The art of preserving health : a poem. ade ? The tower that long hadfloodThe crufh of thunder, and the warring winds,Shook by the flow, but fure deftroyer, Time,Now hangs in doubtful ruins oer its flinty pyramids, and walls of brafs, 540 Defcend ; the Babylonian fpires are funk ;Achaia, Rome, and Egypt, moulder makes the ftable tyranny of thrones. And 4o The A R T, tec, B. II. And tottering empires rum by their own huge rotundity we tread grows old •, 545 And all thofe worlds that roll around the fun,The fun himfelf fhall die; and ancient NightAgain involve the defolate abyfs tTill the great Father thro the lifelefs gloom !Extend his arm to light another world, 550 And bid new planets roll by other thro the regions of unbounded fpace,Where unconfind omnipotence has room,Being, in various fyftems, fluctuates ftillBetween creation and abhorrd decay ; 555 It ever did •, perhaps and ever will. New worlds are ftill emerging from the deep 5The old defcending, in their turns-to rife. .. THE THE A R OF PRESERVING HEALTH. BOOK III. E X E R C I S F [ 43 ] T H- E A R T OF PRESERVING H E A L T H. BO O K E R C I S E. THRO various toils th adventrous mufehas pafl;But half the toil, and more than half, is her theme, and hardly fit for fong- vPlain, and of little ornament; and I5 But little practisd in th Aonian not in vain fuch labours have we tried,If ought thefe lays the fickle health you, ye delicate, I write ; for youI tame my youth to philofophic cares,10. And grow fcill paler by the midnight .Not to debilitate with timorous rules F 2 A hardy 44 The ART of B. III. A hardy frame ; nor needlefly to brave* Unglorious dangers, proud of mortal ftrength ; Is all the leffon that in wholfome years15 Concerns the ftrong. His Care were ill beftowdWho would with warm effeminacy nurfeThe thriving oak, which on the mountains browBears all the blafts that fweep the wintry heavn. Behold the labou
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