Long since I ’ve had a notion, pleasure’s cup to fill.
Behold a sea and ship of which I captain am,
Imbued with naval science, bold as any ram.”
Imagination thus had conjured up a sea.
To him it boundless seemed, dwarfing credulity.200
Compared with him it was a truly boundless pool.
When people see with their own eyes, call them not fool.
His universe was measured by his power of sight.
To such an eye such pool a sea was. He was right.
A false interpreter of scripture is such fly.