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The Description Of Bath

A Poem. Humbly Inscribed To Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia. By Mrs. Mary Chandler. The Third Edition. To which are added, Several Poems by the same Author
 

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On my Recovery.

God of my Life and lengthen'd Days!
To Thee my Breath I owe.
Teach me my grateful Voice to raise,
In Sounds that sweetly flow.
When sinking to the silent Grave,
My Spirits dy'd away;
Thy quick'ning Word new Vigour gave,
Thy Voice commands my Stay.
In my Distress to Thee I cry'd,
When tossing in my Bed;
Thou sent'st thy Mercy to my Aid,
And eas'd my aking Head.

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Thou bidd'st the vital Current flow
In a less rapid Tide;
My dancing Pulse beat calm and low,
And fev'rish Heats subside.
Thou lend'st to my Physician Skill,
Right Med'cines to apply;
And my Disease obey'd thy Will,
The painful Symptoms die.
That Life, which thou hast longer spar'd,
I would devote to Thee.
O let thy Spirit be my Guard,
Till I thy Face shall see!