bottles; let me have a draught of undiluted morning air。 Morning
air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day;
why; then; we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops; for
the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to
morning time in this world。 But remember; it will not keep quite
till noonday even in the coolest cellar; but drive out the stopples
long ere that and follow westward the steps of Aurora。 I am no
worshipper of Hygeia; who was the daughter of that old herb…doctor
AEsculapius; and who is represented on monuments holding a serpent
in one hand; and in the other a cup out of which the serpent
sometimes drinks; but rather of Hebe; cup…bearer to Jupiter; who was
the daughter of Juno and wild lettuce; and who had the power of
restoring gods and men to the vigor of youth。 She was probably the
only thoroughly sound…conditioned; healthy; and robust young lady
that ever walked the globe; and wherever she came it was spring。
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