A Poem upon Tea (1712) [ Practices ]
… Fires destroy'd. Fate then to Man deny'd a Gift so rare, Tho' fav’rite Mortals now the Nectar share, Soon as the Day in Orient Climes is born, The wise Chinese with Tea salute the Morn. And as my Beams, their Vigour to renew, Sport in the … awhile is to be dead. But the blest Leaf Extent of Life can give, And bids Mankind emphatically live. Appear, my lov’d Oriental Sons, and show What Health and Ease the Plant imparts below. Your Ev’ning, equal to the Noon of Life, Bears Love …
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