"Weak withering age no rigid law forbids, With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play."
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John Armstrong (poet)
John Armstrong (1709 – 7th September,1779) was a Scottish physician and poet.
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