Idea - Part 1
Like an adventurous Sea-farer am I,
Who hath some long and dang'rous Voyage beene,
And call'd to tell of his Discoverie,
How farre he sayl'd, what Countries he had seene,
Proceeding from the Port whence he put forth,
Shewes by his Compasse, how his Course he steer'd,
When East, when West, when South, and when by North,
As how the Pole to ev'ry place was rear'd,
What Capes he doubled, of what Continent,
The Gulphes and Straits, that strangely he had past,
Where most becalm'd, where with foule Weather spent,
And on what Rocks in perill to be cast?
Thus in my Love, Time calls me to relate
My tedious Travels, and oft-varying Fate.
Who hath some long and dang'rous Voyage beene,
And call'd to tell of his Discoverie,
How farre he sayl'd, what Countries he had seene,
Proceeding from the Port whence he put forth,
Shewes by his Compasse, how his Course he steer'd,
When East, when West, when South, and when by North,
As how the Pole to ev'ry place was rear'd,
What Capes he doubled, of what Continent,
The Gulphes and Straits, that strangely he had past,
Where most becalm'd, where with foule Weather spent,
And on what Rocks in perill to be cast?
Thus in my Love, Time calls me to relate
My tedious Travels, and oft-varying Fate.
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