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ON HEALTH by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

Poet Analysis

First Line: OH! TELL ME, CAMBRIANS, TELL ME TRUE
Last Line: "IN GROVES, IN SHADY WOODS, OR DELLS."
Subject(s): WALES; WELSHMEN; WELSHWOMEN;

OH! tell me, Cambrians, tell me true,
Does fair Hygeia 'bide with you ?
"Yes, she with us for ever dwells,
In groves, in shady woods, or dells.
Oh! stranger, turn and stay -- for here
She deigns to give her influence dear.
In yonder vale her temple stands;
Her brows entwined with roseate bands
In Cambria's land she ever dwells,
In groves, in shady woods, or dells."



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