Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOME TRAVEL, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)


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First Line: What need I travel, since I may
Last Line: The little world in folio.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WHAT need I travel, since I may
More choicer wonders here survey?
What need I Tyre for purple seek,
When I may find it in a cheek?
Or sack the Eastern shores? there lies
More precious diamonds in her eyes.
What need I dig Peru for ore,
When every hair of her yields more?
Or toil for gums in India,
Since she can breathe more rich than they?
Or ransack Africk? there will be
On either hand more ivory.
But look within: all virtues that
Each nation would appropriate,
And with the glory of them rest,
Are in this map at large exprest;
That who would travel here might know
The little world in folio.





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