ON THE PERUSAL OF HIS VOLUME OF TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF MEXICO. <br /> <br /> <br />'Tis pleasant, lolling in our elbow-chair, <br />Secure at home, to read descriptions rare <br />Of venturous traveller in savage climes; <br />His hair-breadth 'scapes, toil, hunger-and sometimes <br />The merrier passages that, like a foil <br />To set off perils past, sweetened that toil, <br />And took the edge from danger; and I look <br />With such fear-mingled pleasure through thy book, <br />Adventurous Hardy! Thou a diver art, <br />But of no common form; and, for thy part <br />Of the adventure, hast brought home to the nation <br />Pearls of discovery-jewels of observation. <br /> <br />Enfield, January, 1830.<br /><br />Charles Lamb<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-addressed-to-lieut-r-w-h-hardy-r-n/
