StoryTitle("caps", "To the Virginian~Voyage") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You brave heroic minds", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Worthy your country's name,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That honour still pursue;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Go and subdue!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whilst loitering hinds", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lurk here at home with shame.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Britons, you stay too long:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quickly aboard bestow you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And with a merry gale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Swell your stretch'd sail", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With vows as strong", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As the winds that blow you.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your course securely steer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "West and by south forth keep!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Rocks, lee-shores, nor shoals", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "When Eolus scowls", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You need not fear;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So absolute the deep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And cheerfully at sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Success you still entice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To get the pearl and gold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And ours to hold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Virginia, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Earth's only paradise.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where nature hath in store", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fowl, venison, and fish,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And the fruitfull'st soil", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Without your toil", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Three harvests more,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All greater than your wish.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the ambitious vine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Crowns with his purple mass", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The cedar reaching high", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To kiss the sky,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cypress, pine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And useful sassafras.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To whom the Golden Age", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Still nature's laws doth give,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "No other cares attend,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But them to defend", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From winter's rage,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That long there doth not live.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When as the luscious smell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of that delicious land", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Above the seas that flows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The clear wind throws,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your hearts to swell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Approaching the dear strand;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In kenning of the shore", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(Thanks to God first given)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "O you the happiest men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Be frolic then!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let cannons roar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Frighting the wide heaven.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in regions far,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Such heroes bring ye forth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "As those from whom we came;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And plant our name", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under that star", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not known unto our North.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And as there plenty grows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of laurel everywhere—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Apollo's sacred tree—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "You it may see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A poet's brows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To crown, that may sing there.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy Voyages attend,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Industrious Hakluyt,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whose reading shall inflame", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Men to seek fame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And much commend", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To after times thy wit.", "") ?>
Poet("Michael Drayton", "1563-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>