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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A MINERAL IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND ... CURED OF DISEASES, SELECTION, by WILLIAM LUCKYN
First Line: For introduction, not to stay
Last Line: Rapture to give it you again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grimston, Viscount
Subject(s): Healing; Water; Cures
First Line: For introduction, not to stay
Last Line: Rapture to give it you again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grimston, Viscount
Subject(s): Healing; Water; Cures
For Introduction, not to stay,
I sing, as Poets used to say,
The Virtues, Cures, Effects, and Nature,
Of a rare Spring of Min'ral Water.
I beg'd the Muses to Inspire
And fill me with Poetick Fire:
Clio, Quoth I, I do presume
For Kindling to your Well to come;
For it may Wonders do as easily
As Athamas, that Brook of Thessaly,
Which, as some Authors Warrant cou'd,
With its own Billows Burn a Wood:
Upon my Word you shan't lose by
The Kindness done your Friend, for I
Will as a Bellows, Wind draw in
Rapture to give it you again.
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