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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 9 (April 1, 1933)

The Philosophy of Peregrination

The Philosophy of Peregrination.

Thus, when you travel, don't look for the world, but let the world find you.

“Travel in comfort” is not idle propaganda of the protagonists of pleasure, but the true philosophy of peregrination; for, if a rolling stone gathers no moss, a hurtling meteor gathers no star dust. Thus we say with Gullible:

Globe-trotters all
Who would answer the call
Of the wild, the exotic, the free,
Should do so, not lightly
Nor dull and politely,
But rather to capture the key
Of the door to the garden
Of Slavery's Pardon,
Where only the “seers” may see.
The object of travel
Should be to unravel
The wool of the sheep from the mind,
And not to run hither
And thither to blither
Of where you have dallied and dined;
Or how you've disported
Where caliphs once courted
And potentates wintered and wined.
The reason for roving
Should be the untroving
Of treasure—not baubles or pelf,
But gems undiscovered,
In vanity smothered,
Which lie in the depths of one's self.

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