The Year of Wonders.
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159.
Rude as their Ships was Navigation, then;
No useful Compass or Meridian known:
Coasting, they kept the Land within their ken,
And knew no North but when the Pole-star shone.
Rude as their Ships was Navigation, then;
No useful Compass or Meridian known:
Coasting, they kept the Land within their ken,
And knew no North but when the Pole-star shone.
160.
Of all who since have us'd the open Sea,
Than the bold English none more Fame have won:
(s) Extra anni solisque vias, Virg..(s) Beyond the Year, and out of Heav'ns high-way,
They make discoveries where they see no Sun.
Of all who since have us'd the open Sea,
Than the bold English none more Fame have won:
(s) Extra anni solisque vias, Virg..(s) Beyond the Year, and out of Heav'ns high-way,
They make discoveries where they see no Sun.
161.
But what so long in vain, and yet unknown,
By poor man-kinds benighted Wit is sought:
Shall in this Age to Britain first be shewn,
And hence be to admiring Nations taught.
But what so long in vain, and yet unknown,
By poor man-kinds benighted Wit is sought:
Shall in this Age to Britain first be shewn,
And hence be to admiring Nations taught.
162.
The Ebbs of Tides, and their mysterious Flow,
We, as Arts Elements shall understand:
And as by Line upon the Ocean go,
Whose Paths shall be familiar as the Land.
The Ebbs of Tides, and their mysterious Flow,
We, as Arts Elements shall understand:
And as by Line upon the Ocean go,
Whose Paths shall be familiar as the Land.
163. (t) Instructed
