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[Page 63]
On my Recovery.
1 God of my Life and lengthen'd Days!
2 To Thee my Breath I owe.
3 Teach me my grateful Voice to raise,
4 In Sounds that sweetly flow.
5 When sinking to the silent Grave,
6 My Spirits dy'd away;
7 Thy quick'ning Word new Vigour gave,
8 Thy Voice commands my Stay.
9 In my Distress to Thee I cry'd,
10 When tossing in my Bed;
11 Thou sent'st thy Mercy to my Aid,
12 And eas'd my aking Head.
[Page 64]13 Thou bidd'st the vital Current flow
14 In a less rapid Tide;
15 My dancing Pulse beat calm and low,
16 And fev'rish Heats subside.
17 Thou lend'st to my Physician Skill,
18 Right Med'cines to apply;
19 And my Disease obey'd thy Will,
20 The painful Symptoms die.
21 That Life, which thou hast longer spar'd,
22 I would devote to Thee.
23 O let thy Spirit be my Guard,
24 Till I thy Face shall see!
Source edition
Chandler, Mary, 1687-1745. 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 [poems only]. London: Printed for James Leake, Bookseller in Bath, 1736, pp. 63-64. 77p. (ESTC T63103) (Page images digitized from a copy at Princeton University.)
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Other works by Mary Chandler
- A Description of Bath. Humbly Inscribed to Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia. ()
- A LETTER to Lady F—. From the Other World. ()
- A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lady Russel. Written at her Ladyship's Desire, on the Conversation at Breakfast. ()
- My Own EPITAPH. ()
- My WISH. ()
- On Mr. B—'s Garden. To Mrs. S—. ()
- A POEM on the Princess Amelia. In Answer to Damon, who invited the Nymphs of Bath, to sing her Praise. ()
- A SONG. ()
- To Dr. Oliver, Who corrected my Bath Poem. ()
- To Miss Moor, On her FIRE-SCREEN. ()
- To Mrs. Boteler. A Description of her Garden. ()
- To Mrs. Jacob, On her Seat called, The Rocks, in Gloucestershire. ()
- To Mrs. Moor, A Poem on Friendship. Written in 1729. ()
- To Mrs. Shales. ()
- To Mrs. Stephens. ()
- To Mrs. Ward. ()
- To the Reverend Doctor S—. An Invitation to a Morning-Walk in the Spring. ()
- To the Reverend Mr. Sam. Chandler. On WISDOM. ()