To Mr. E. H. Physician and Poet

H—the delight of Phoebus, who imparts
To thee his Darling, both his sacred Arts,
His healing Virtue, and his Heavenly flame,
His power to give long Life, and endless Fame
To a frail Body and an empty name:
With constancy thy course of Glory run,
Follow the leading God, as thou'st begun:
Rise by vast Science and judicious rage,
Like him t' enlighten and to warm our Age.
At once his Favorite and his Rival be,
'Tis he his Daphne comes to share with thee,
Till all his powers on thee conferr'd w'admire,
His vital influence and eternal Fire;
That Fire tho fierce, impetuous, never strays,
But circling in sublime refulgent ways,
By its just course spreads o're the World its Rays.