Sunday, April 17, 2011

Enough with these upstarts, these whippersnappers.

From Idea


Like an adventurous seafarer am I,
Who hath some long and dang'rous voyage been,
And called to tell of his discovery,
How far he sailed, what countries he had seen;
Proceeding from the port whence he put forth,
Shows by his compass how his course he steered,
As how the pole to ev'ry place was reared,
What capes he doubled, of what continent,
The gulfs and straits that strangely he had passed,
Where most becalmed, where with foul weather spent,
And on what rocks in peril to be cast:
Thus in my love, time calls me to relate
My tedious travels and oft-varying fate.

--Michael Drayton

1 comment:

Bardiac said...

He's so brilliant :) I should read the whole sequence some time, shouldn't I!

ooo, my capcha is "prizes."