Relations to 'Home' : the urge to travel

The following is an excerpt from Sir Richard Burton's translation of the Tales From A Thousand and One Nights (which I am currently reading). comments to follow...

"Travel! and thou shalt find new friends for old ones left behind;
Toil! for the sweets of human life by toil and moil are found:
The stay-at-home no honour wins nor aught attains but want;
So leave thy place of birth and wander all the world around!
I've seen, and very oft I've seen, how standing water stinks,
And only flowing sweetens it and trotting makes it sound:
And were the moon for ever full and ne'er to wax or wane,
Man would not strain his watchful eyes to see its gladsome round;
Except the lion leave his lair he ne'er would fell his game;
Except the arrow leave the bow ne'er had it reached its bound:
Gold-dust is dust the while it lies untravelled in the mine,
And aloes-wood mere fuel is upon its native ground:
And gold shall win his highest worth when from his goal ungoal'd;
And aloes sent to foreign parts grows costlier than gold.