Obey’d through all the circuit of the main.

Then too great Commerce, for a late-found world,

Against your coast her eager sails unfurl’d:

New hopes, new passions, thence to bosom fir’d;

New plans, new arts, the genius thence inspir’d;

Thence every scene, which private fortune knows,

In stronger life, with bolder spirit, rose.

Disgrac’d I this full prospect which I drew?

My colours languid, or my strokes untrue?

Have not your sages, warriors, swains, and kings