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TO
EDWARD JENNER, M.D.
Oh! blest by Phœbus, at thy natal hour,
With happy presage of thy healing pow'r!
'Tis thine to study nature's hidden laws,
Trace all her wonders to their secret cause;
Prevent disease with thy Pæonian art,
Encounter Death, and blunt his fatal dart.
While thus I rove through Chelta's flow'ry plain,
And some faint embers of my youth remain,
