"I tread his deck, / Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes / Discover countries, with a kindred heart / Suffer his woes and share in his escapes, / While fancy, like the finger of a clock, / Runs the great circuit, and is still at home."
The Task
Cowper, William. <u>The Works of William Cowper: Comprising his poems, correspondence, and translations. With a life of the author, by the editor, Robert Southey</u>. Baldwin and Cradock: London, 1835-7. Chadwyck-Healey: Cambridge, 1992.