| Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618). Poems. 1892. | | | | XXX. | | To his singular friend, William Lithgow; 1618 |
| | | WHILES I admire thy first and second ways, | |
| Long ten years wandering in the world-wide bounds; | |
| I rest amazed to think on these assays | |
| That thy first travel to the world forth sounds: | |
| In bravest sense, compendious ornate style, | 5 |
| Didst show most rare adventures to this isle. | |
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| And now thy second pilgrimage I see | |
| At London thou resolvest to put in light; | |
| Thy Libyan ways, so fearful to the eye, | |
| And Garamants their strange amazing sight. | 10 |
| Meanwhile this work affords a three-fold gain | |
| In fury of thy fierce Castalian vein; | |
| As thou for travels brookest the greatest name, | |
| So voyage on, increase, maintain the same! W. R. | | | | |
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