From Purchase’s Pilgrimage, Versified and Designed as a Motto to “Voyages for the Discovery of a N. W. Passage.”

How shall I admire Your courage, ye marine Adventurers? Worthies, beyond all names of worthiness! Who can endure alike the Sun so long Present or absent; and without a dread Encounter foggy mist, tempestuous sleet, Cold blasts, with snows and hail in th’ frozen air, And those unequal seas which might amaze All ears and eyes, yea, and make Neptune’s self To quake with chilly fear when he beholds: When his huge Monsters, Icy Isles, disdaining His sovereignty, and the Sun’s hot violence, Muster upon those watery plains, for war, Continual war; and wheresoe’er they rush Make winds and waves give back, till, in the shock, Crashing and rending their congealed sides, They split themselves with their own massiness.