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 oer the world, new-bathd, did houring fly, | |
The low-coucht seas, and high-plact land above, | |
Discerne with faithfull, though with fearfull eye, | |
That what both land and sea resounding ring | 5 |
We may to this All-makers prayses sing. | |
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He who directs the sparrowes 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, | |
Whilst with poore featherd oares she passe the waues | 15 |
Of this all-vulgar-breathd, storme-threatening ayre, | |
Deare Lord, vouchsafe with patient looke t attend | |
Her flights 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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