Lines Addressed To Lieut. R.W.H. Hardy

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Title:     Lines Addressed To Lieut. R.W.H. Hardy
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

Addressed to Lieut. R.W.H. Hardy, R.N., on the Perusal of his Volume of
Travels in the Interior of Mexico

'Tis pleasant, lolling in our elbow chair,
Secure at home, to read descriptions rare
Of venturous traveller in savage climes;
His hair-breadth 'scapes, toil, hunger--and sometimes
The merrier passages that, like a foil
To set off perils past, sweetened that toil,
And took the edge from danger; and I look
With such fear-mingled pleasure thro' thy book,
Adventurous Hardy! Thou a _diver_[1] art,
But of no common form; and for thy part
Of the adventure, hast brought home to the nation
_Pearls_ of discovery--_jewels_ of observation.

ENFIELD, _January_, 1830.

[Footnote 1: Captain Hardy practised this art with considerable
success. [Note in _Athenaeum_.]]

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Charles Lamb's poem: Lines Addressed To Lieut. R.w.h. Hardy,

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