360. The Search by Henry Vaughan
b'H Vaughan read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Search\\nby Henry Vaughan 1621 \\u2013 1695)\\n\\nLeave, leave, thy gadding thoughts;\\n Who Pores\\n and spies\\t\\n Still out of Doores,\\n descries\\n Within them nought.\\n \\n The skinne, and shell of things\\n Though faire,\\n are not\\n Thy wish, nor pray\\u2019r,\\n but got\\n By meer Despair\\n of wings.\\n \\n To rack old Elements,\\n or Dust\\n and say\\t\\n Sure here he must\\n needs stay,\\n Is not the way,\\n nor just.\\nSearch well another world; who studies this,\\nTravels in Clouds, seeks Manna, where none is.\\t\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 3 November 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'