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Hygeia* here her reign resumes, 



The hyp'd and crazy healing; 

 Restores old wounds, dispels the glooms, 



And brings the callous, feeling. 



Then let religious maniacs prate, 



And on the treaty bounce it; 

 Here invalids in church and state 



Are all made whole at 'Sconset. 



The mind with priestcraft long beguiled 



May choose with freedom handy, 

 Good Moses with the spirit tilled, 



Or Thomas Paine with brandy. t 



And thus will I, though pope and sect 



With bulls and zeal denounce it; 

 My reason 's mine to think and act 



Like thee, friend Siasconset! 



The souls of once too rude a form 



Receive a softer moulding; 

 Here Jacobins forget to storm, 



And wives leave off their scolding. 



The wight in town, who swells with pride, J 



Or like Clesippus§ vaunts it, 

 The paltry coxcomb lays aside 



And wears the man at 'Sconset. 



* The daughter of ^Esculapius, and the goddess of health. 



t All sectarian principles are viewed here (like the offal of the 

 fish) as the refuse of the village. They are all cast down the 

 bank together. 



I The influence of these laws is quite unfriendly to every 

 species of nobility, not only at Congress, but also at Nantucket. 



§ See Entick's account of the heathen gods, etc. 



