Where the wan daughter of the yellow year,
The chatt'ring ague chill, the writhing stone,
And he of ghastly feature, on whose ear
Unheeded croaks the death-bird's warning moan,
Marasmus; knotty gout; and the dead life
Of nerveless palsy; there on purpose fell
Dark brooding, whets his interdicted knife
Grim suicide, the damned fiend of hell.
There too is the stunn'd apoplexy pight,
The bloated child of gorg'd intemperance foul;
Self-wasting melancholy, black as night
Lowering, and foaming fierce with hideous howl
The dog hydrophoby, and near allied
Scar'd madness, with her moon-struck eye-balls staring wide.