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To the Virginian Voyage
Britons, you stay too long, Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry Gale Swell you stretch’d Sayle, With Vowes as strong, As the Winds that blow you. Your course securely steere, West and by South forth keepe, Rocks, Lee-shores, … Continue reading
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Contemplations
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor ever shall be. Bishop Joseph Hall, Contemplations (Book Four, … Continue reading
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I started Early – Took my Dog –
I started Early – Took my Dog – And visited the Sea – The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me – And Frigates – in the Upper Floor Extended Hempen Hands – Presuming Me to be … Continue reading
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Sunken Gold
In dim green depths rot ingot-laden ships; And gold doubloons, that from the drowned hand fell, Lie nestled in the ocean-flower’s bell With love’s old gifts, once kissed by long-drowned lips. And round some wrought gold cup the sea-grass whips, … Continue reading
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Introductory Lectures on Political Economy
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price. Richard Whately, Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1832). Richard Whately was … Continue reading
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Doctor Faustus
How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I’ll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for … Continue reading
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Tell me you wandering Spirits
Go search the Vallies, pluck up every Rose, You’ll finde a scent, a blush of her in those: Fish, fish, for Pearle, or Corrall, there you’ll see How orientall all her Colours be; Go call the Echoes to your ayde, … Continue reading
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An Ode in the praise of Sack
Has fortune made thee poor, dost thou desire To heap up glorious mire? Come to this stream where every drop’s a Pearl Might buy an Earl: Drench thy selfe soundly here and thou shalt rise Richer than both the ‘Indies. … Continue reading
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Another Pearl
Let’s walk to the sound of distant shells To a place where life would have no end You’d be the mother of my pearls If you follow me into my world Back to the place where we’d be free Where … Continue reading
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A Drop fell on the Apple Tree
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree – Another – on the Roof – A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves – And made the Gables laugh – A few went out to help the Brook That went to help … Continue reading
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