Jenner to mortals first the gift reveal’d:
Thenceforward mothers to their hearts could press
Their children without fear to lose them heal’d;
Nor fear’d thenceforward in her loveliness
The maiden, lest the fatal venom spoil
Her cheek of roses, or her brow of snow.
All Europe then is join’d in grateful toil,
For gift so precious and immense to know,
In praises loud to echo Jenner’s name;
And altars to his skill to raise decrees,