Excerpt from Around the World With Philip Phillips, the Singing Pilgrim: A Pictorial Tour of the Globe, Illustrated by Pen and Pencil

Gentle reader, when you open
Oft the pages of this volume,
Full we trust 't will be of interest,
As a summer day of sunshine,
Full of pleasure and instruction
As the ocean is of billows.
It will take you on a journey,
On a rare and wondrous journey,
From the shores of Columbia
And the cities of New England,
To the vast and great Niagara,
Roaring loud and roaring louder,
Till your ears are filled with thunder,
It will take you to the south land,
View the cotton-fields and negroes.
View the marvelous plantations,
And the great Palmetto swamp lands,
It will take you to the wheat-fields.
Through the rolling, verdant prairies,
It will traverse to yon mountains -
Mountains great and highlands mighty,
Gardens wonderful 't will show you,
Many a deep and wooded valley,
Many a fall of "Laughing Water, "
And from off the shores of Freedom
It will take you o'er the ocean -
O'er the mild and calm Pacific,
To the island land Australia,
Through its gullies filled with fern-trees,
Through its gold-fields and its cities.
It will lead you ever onward
Where the spicy breezes linger.
Where the Devil-dancers worship,
In Ceylon's all beauteous island,
Where the temples of Benares
Border on the sacred river,
Where the Taj-Tomb most majestic
Fills the looker-on with wonder,
It will take you in its journeys.
Then from India's land of idols
It will lead you up to Egypt,
It will climb the lofty Pyramids,
And will view the Nile on flowing,
Into Palestine 't will bring you.
Where the Savior lived and suffered,
Glorious land of gospel history.
Then to Italy, land of painters.
Land of architects and sculptors,
And to France and mighty Paris,
Past the vineyards all about you.
It will onward take its journey,
It will climb the Alpine glacier,
It will sail the Rhine historic.
It will view the dykes of Holland
And old Briton's wondrous country.
Think you then this trip worth taking?
Would you see these marvels mighty,
View the strange and curious customs?
If you would, then scan these pages.
Give them thought and deep attention,
And perhaps with pen and pencil
I may paint the moaning forest.
Paint the sad and heaving ocean,
Paint the mountains high and hoary,
And the rivers deep and mighty.
With these kindly words of promise,
Gentle reader, now I leave you,
And I trust will make the pleasure
Of the seeing and the viewing
Of these wondrous scenes and marvels
Yours, as much as books can make them

Philip Phillips, Jr.

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