| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | The Dove | | LXXVII. Richard Zouche |
| | | TAKE 1 wing, my Muse, and, like that silent doue | |
| Which o’er the world, new-bath’d, did hou’ring fly, | |
| The low-coucht seas, and high-plac’t land above, | |
| Discerne with faithfull, though with fearfull eye, | |
| That what both land and sea resounding ring | 5 |
| We may to this All-maker’s prayses sing. | |
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| He who directs the sparrowe’s tender flight, | |
| And sees him safely reach the heartlesse ground, | |
| Guide thee in all thy passages aright, | |
| And grant thy course be sure, thy resting sound, | 10 |
| From Mount of Oliues, as from hill of bayes, | |
| Blest with the branch of peace, though not of praise. | |
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| And you, whose care our floating houses yet saues | |
| From sinking in the deluge of despayre, | |
| Whils’t with poore feather’d oares she passe the waues | 15 |
| Of this all-vulgar-breath’d, storme-threatening ayre,— | |
| Deare Lord, vouchsafe with patient looke t’ attend | |
| Her flight’s both trembling rise and humble end. | |
| | | Note 1. LXXVII. Richard Zouche wrote “The Dove: or Passages of Cosmography,” which was published in 1613. From the title-page of this work we learn that its author was a “Civillian of New Colledge in Oxford.” “The Dove” was reprinted at Oxford in 1839. [back] | | |
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