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A length of golden years unfleſh'd in blood,
A ſtranger to the ſavage arts of life,
Death, rapine, carnage, ſurfeit and diſeaſe;
The lord and not the tyrant of the world.
To this primitive diet Health invites her votaries. From the produce of the field her various banquet is compoſed: hence ſhe diſpenſes health of body, hilarity of mind, and joins to animal vivacity the exalted taſte of intellectual life. Nor is Pleaſure, handmaid of Health, a ſtranger to the feaſt. Thither the bland Divinity con-
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