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Tixall Poetry.
To
Mr Normington,
upon His Easterne Voyage.
You that have tasted Rhodanus and Po,
And now to Nilus and to Ganges goe;
That Alpes and Apenines by stepps have past,
And now to Caucasus and Athos hast;
Who, leaving Roman eagles, equall runne
With moones of Otoman, and Sophi's sunne;
When you have seene what all the world admires,
Rivers with gold, and mountaynes fraught with fires:
When you shall equally sayle, toyle, and wander,
With Jason, Hercules, and Alexander;
And every severall clyme, and every zone,
Make as familier to you as your owne:
And now to Nilus and to Ganges goe;
That Alpes and Apenines by stepps have past,
And now to Caucasus and Athos hast;
Who, leaving Roman eagles, equall runne
With moones of Otoman, and Sophi's sunne;
When you have seene what all the world admires,
Rivers with gold, and mountaynes fraught with fires:
When you shall equally sayle, toyle, and wander,
With Jason, Hercules, and Alexander;
And every severall clyme, and every zone,
Make as familier to you as your owne:
