The mind may be "unobscured" and the body "unclogg'd"

  'O who can speak the vigorous joys of health!
  Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind:
  The morning rises gay, with pleasing stealth,
  The temperate evening falls serene and kind.
  In health the wiser brutes true gladness find:
  See! how the younglings frisk along the meads,
  As May comes on, and wakes the balmy wind;
  Rampant with life, their joy all joy exceeds:
Yet what but high-strung health this dancing pleasaunce breeds?
(Canto II, ll. 514-22, p. 216)

Thomson, James (1700-1748). Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and other Poems. Ed. James Sambrook. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

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