New Englands Prospect / A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants

by active 1629-1635 William Wood

And thine experience thus a Mount do'st make,

From whence we may New Englands Prospect take,

Though many thousands distant: wherefore thou

Thy selfe shalt sit upon mount Praise her brow.

For if the man that shall the short cut find

Vnto the Indies, shall for that be shrin'd;

Sure thou deservest then no small prayse, who,

So short cut to New England here dost show;

And if then this small thankes, thou getst no more,

Of thankes I then will say the world's growne poore.