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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,