lirik lagu robert newton - ode upon doctor harvey by abraham cowley
coy nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown
a beauteous virgin still, injoy’d by none
nor seen unveil’d by any one)
when harveys violent passion she did see
began to tremble, and to flee
took sanctuary like daphne in a tree:
there daphnes lover stop’t, and thought it much
the very leaves of her to touch
but harvey our apollo, stopt not so
into the bark, and root he after her did goe:
no smallest fibres of a plant
for which the eiebeams point doth sharpness want
his passage after her withstood
what should shе do? through all the moving wood
of lives indow’d with sensе she took her flight
harvey persues, and keeps her still in sight
but as the deer long~hunted takes a flood
she leap’t at last into the winding streams of blood;
of mans meander all the purple reaches made
till at the heart she stay’d
where turning head, and at a bay
thus, by well~purged ears, was she o’re~heard to say
here sure shall i be safe (said she) [1668: (said) she
none will be able sure to see
this my retreat, but only he
who made both it and me
the heart of man, what art can e’re reveal?
a wall impervious between
divides the very parts within
and doth the heart of man ev’n from its self conceal
she spoke, but e’re she was aware
harvey was with her there
and held this slippery proteus in a chain
till all her mighty mysteries she descry’d
which from his wit the attempt before to hide
was the first thing that nature did in vain
he the young practise of new life did see
whil’st to conceal its toilsome poverty
it for a living wrought, both hard, and privately
before the liver understood
the n0ble scarlet dye of blood
before one drop was by it made
or brought into it, to set up the trade;
before the untaught heart began to beat
the tuneful march to vital heat
from all the souls that living buildings rear
whether imply’d for earth, or sea, or air
whether it in the womb or egg be wrought
a strict account to him is hourly brought
how the great fabrick does proceed
what time and what materials it does need
he so exactly does the work survey
as if he hir’d the workers by the day
thus harvey sought for truth in truth’s own book
the creatures, which by god himself was writ;
and wisely thought ’twas fit
not to read comments only upon it
but on th’original it self to look
methinks in arts great circle others stand
lock’t up together, hand in hand
every one leads as he is led
the same bare path they tread
a dance like fairies a fantastick round
but neither change their motion, nor their ground:
had harvey to this road confin’d his wit
his n0ble circle of the blood, had been untroden yet
great doctor! th’ art of curing’s cur’d by thee
we now thy patient physick see
from all inveterate diseases free
purg’d of old errors by thy care
new dieted, put forth to clearer air
it now will strong and healthful prove
it self before lethargick lay, and could not move
these useful secrets to his pen we owe
and thousands more ’twas ready to bestow;
of which a barb’rous wars unlearned rage
has robb’d the ruin’d age;
o cruel loss! as if the golden fleece
with so much cost, and labour bought
and from a far by a great heroe brought
had sunk ev’n in the ports of greece
o cursed warr! who can forgive thee this?
houses and towns may rise again
and ten times easier it is
to rebuild pauls, than any work of his
that mighty task none but himself can do
nay, scarce himself too now
for though his wit the force of age withstand
his body alas! and time it must command
and nature now, so long by him surpass’t
will sure have her revenge on him at last
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