The Voyagers. Nahum Tate Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Tate, Nahum, c. 1652-1715. Poems by N. Tate. London Printed by T.M. for Benj. Tooke ... 1677 pp. 114-115. [15],133p.

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The Voyagers . WHilst Stemming Life's uncertain Tide , Tost on the Waves of Doubts and Fears , If to frail Reason's Conduct we Confide We strive in vain The happy Port to gain , For oft as Clouded Reason disappears We cannot fail to Rove afarr Mistaking each false Meteor for our Starr . How dismall are the Perills we engage When ( grown t'a Hurricane ) Our boist'rous Passions Rouze the sleeping Main ? But ah ! how Few have perisht by the Rage Of Storms , if numbred with the dayly Throng Whom Syren Pleasures as they fail along Seduce to the dead shore , Where They saw others wreckt before , Yet still pursue though certain to be Lost ; For if from their cleft Boat they climb the Coast They fall into the treach'rous Syrens Pow'r Who Entertain them first , and then Devour .