To that magnificent chateau resort,
Where Louis Fourteenth held his splendid court,
And let both curiosity and taste
Be gratified, ere from the spot you haste.
Then by the assistance of excursive thought,
A country seek, where into bondage brought,
Long time the seed of Abram knew no rest,
By unrelenting cruelty opprest.
Again upon the wings of Fancy fly,
And drop your plumes beneath an eastern sky:
The seat of Lydia’s ancient kings explore,
And contemplate their evanescent power.
Returning on the coast of Barbary pause,
Amid a race who own Mahomet’s laws:
By far more civilized, as travellers tell,
Than other nations near to which they dwell.
Thus having touched on Europe’s, Afric’s shores,
And rov’d awhile ‘mid Asiatic bowers,
On the great western continent now light,
And let its beauties fix your wond’ring sight.
Cease then: nor longer o’er creation roam,
But call indulged imagination home;
And pondering the track you’ve journey’d o’er,
Another planet name–I ask no more.
(Elizabeth Hitchener)
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