{"id":"01KG8AJFSEG96CKC4WD1QZN6Q8","cid":"bafkreib2ax3jhjtvw5xuiywgup6h54rfmnmjbojqymzpt66b2wha7jkjpu","type":"chapter","properties":{"description":"# TO NED\n\n## Overview\n\"TO NED\" is a chapter-level entity, identified as a poem, extracted from the larger work [John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H). It spans lines 1319 to 1359 of its source text.\n\n## Context\nThis poem is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It was programmatically extracted from the plain text file [john_marr_and_other_poems.txt](arke:01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4). Within [John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H), \"TO NED\" follows the poem [THE MALDIVE SHARK](arke:01KG8AJFSHRXVRBV58DE9M8BZZ) and precedes [CROSSING THE TROPICS](arke:01KG8AJFSE9ZE0XN0RRZ9EWD41).\n\n## Contents\nThe poem, addressed to \"Ned Bunn,\" reflects on a past world of exploration and untouched natural beauty, contrasting it with a present influenced by \"Pelf and Trade.\" The speaker reminisces about \"Marquesas and glenned isles\" and \"Typee-truants,\" evoking a sense of lost \"Authentic Edens in a Pagan sea.\" It questions whether future \"pleasure-hunters\" or \"tourists\" will find these islands in the same pristine state, concluding that \"Adam advances, smart in pace, / But scarce by violets that advance you trace.\" The poem ends with a contemplation of finding paradise both \"Here and hereafter.\"","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.520Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"TO NED","end_line":1359,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:32.310Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"TO NED","source_file":"01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4","start_line":1319,"text":"TO NED\r\n\r\n\r\nWhere is the world we roved, Ned Bunn?\r\n    Hollows thereof lay rich in shade\r\nBy voyagers old inviolate thrown\r\n    Ere Paul Pry cruised with Pelf and Trade.\r\nTo us old lads some thoughts come home\r\nWho roamed a world young lads no more shall roam.\r\n\r\nNor less the satiate year impends\r\n    When, wearying of routine-resorts,\r\nThe pleasure-hunter shall break loose,\r\n    Ned, for our Pantheistic ports:—\r\nMarquesas and glenned isles that be\r\nAuthentic Edens in a Pagan sea.\r\n\r\nThe charm of scenes untried shall lure,\r\nAnd, Ned, a legend urge the flight—\r\nThe Typee-truants under stars\r\nUnknown to Shakespere’s _Midsummer-Night;_\r\nAnd man, if lost to Saturn’s Age,\r\nYet feeling life no Syrian pilgrimage.\r\n\r\nBut, tell, shall he, the tourist, find\r\n    Our isles the same in violet-glow\r\nEnamoring us what years and years—\r\n    Ah, Ned, what years and years ago!\r\nWell, Adam advances, smart in pace,\r\nBut scarce by violets that advance you trace.\r\n\r\nBut we, in anchor-watches calm,\r\n    The Indian Psyche’s languor won,\r\nAnd, musing, breathed primeval balm\r\n    From Edens ere yet overrun;\r\nMarvelling mild if mortal twice,\r\nHere and hereafter, touch a Paradise.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"TO NED"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJFSHRXVRBV58DE9M8BZZ","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJFSE9ZE0XN0RRZ9EWD41","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:33.166Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.704Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}