An Earlier America and People Who Revealed It

Treasure fleets homeward, roped in a narrow style.

Only an endless array of mountains seen through.

Seasonal salted waters abounded without foundation,

Which the doughy captain knew. As he did

The country he returned to explore, eye on the same

Celestial observations:  Musk-melons, watermelons, and pump-blazed trees

from Seed to substantial Fire

Travelling from far up the Pamunkey, into the Gulf in time

To be people no longer from the settled fringe

Of some great islands, themselves a noted place

As vastly big as claiming in a loud pageant, Plans

For their Diversion alone, altogether geo-graphical

As well as practical and incognita, a modest simulation in all minds,

A fantasy of the century all across the Gulf

Centered on two men engaged, sure they will have the Goodness to confess


To the mind-travelling Reader, who were a secretive lot 

And so venture blessings for to lure chimerae.

The Reader, finally arrived at the mouth, the daring 

Penetrations were proaching full baronial grandeur

Were believed to disembogue for competitive reasons

The ships that had brought them to its falls, a wooden companion of the regal

expected accretions who represented themselves

As effective as mountains for doubt to spunge: therefore, are any contemporary

Preparations for forays from the the wilderness seem so typical of struggle
When they became essential: the entrepreneur was fired.

I believe the World affords of rumored golden cities and

Stores of unbored attention for a long lesson in the strangeness

For all contenting themselves in search of a parallel myth.