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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459020" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Virginian Voyage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">YOU brave heroic minds <br> Worthy your country's name, <br> That honour still pursue; <br> Go and subdue! <br>Whilst loitering hinds <br> Lurk here at home with shame. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Britons, you stay too long: <br> Quickly aboard bestow you, <br> And with a merry gale <br> Swell your stretch'd sail <br>With vows as strong <br> As the winds that blow you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your course securely steer, <br> West and by south forth keep! <br> Rocks, lee-shores, nor shoals <br> When Eolus scowls <br>You need not fear; <br> So absolute the deep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And cheerfully at sea <br> Success you still entice <br> To get the pearl and gold, <br> And ours to hold <br>Virginia, <br> Earth's only paradise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where nature hath in store <br> Fowl, venison, and fish, <br> And the fruitfull'st soil <br> Without your toil <br>Three harvests more, <br> All greater than your wish. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the ambitious vine <br> Crowns with his purple mass <br> The cedar reaching high <br> To kiss the sky, <br>The cypress, pine, <br> And useful sassafras. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To whom the Golden Age <br> Still nature's laws doth give, <br> No other cares attend, <br> But them to defend <br>From winter's rage, <br> That long there doth not live. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When as the luscious smell <br> Of that delicious land <br> Above the seas that flows <br> The clear wind throws, <br>Your hearts to swell <br> Approaching the dear strand; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In kenning of the shore <br> (Thanks to God first given) <br> O you the happiest men, <br> Be frolic then! <br>Let cannons roar, <br> Frighting the wide heaven. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in regions far, <br> Such heroes bring ye forth <br> As those from whom we came; <br> And plant our name <br>Under that star <br> Not known unto our North. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as there plenty grows <br> Of laurel everywhere-- <br> Apollo's sacred tree-- <br> You it may see <br>A poet's brows <br> To crown, that may sing there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy Voyages attend, <br> Industrious Hakluyt, <br> Whose reading shall inflame <br> Men to seek fame, <br>And much commend <br> To after times thy wit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Drayton">Michael Drayton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459020" data-title="To the Virginian Voyage de Michael Drayton" data-description="YOU brave heroic minds Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue; Go and subdue! Whilst loitering hinds Lurk here at home with shame. Britons, you stay too l..."></div> </div> </div>
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