Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and art . m others, in that itsscene lies upon the Pinta, and the principalcharacter is Martin Alonzo Pinzon, her bravebut overbalanced commander, who could notbrook a superior, and who deserted and after-wards strove to rob the great Admiral of hishonors. Failure of his attempt caused hisignominious return and death from a brokenheart. Juan de la Cosa, famous now for the charthe made of the new world, owned the SantaMaria, commanded by Columbus, and he sailedin her as pilot. How inspiringly the poets tell of that stupen-dous journey! The kings had mocke
Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and art . m others, in that itsscene lies upon the Pinta, and the principalcharacter is Martin Alonzo Pinzon, her bravebut overbalanced commander, who could notbrook a superior, and who deserted and after-wards strove to rob the great Admiral of hishonors. Failure of his attempt caused hisignominious return and death from a brokenheart. Juan de la Cosa, famous now for the charthe made of the new world, owned the SantaMaria, commanded by Columbus, and he sailedin her as pilot. How inspiringly the poets tell of that stupen-dous journey! The kings had mocked,The monks sustained him. Hail, Rabida, hail!Thy cloisters he had paced; thy pathways hardYet sweet with lavender and thyme; had gazedOn the azure waves from Palos promontory;Listened its meek Superiors words: Fear naught!Beyond that beaming ocean lies thy world!Thou seekst that world for Gods sake, not for mans;Therefore God grants it thee. Next morn he sailed:That holy monk his great ViaticumGave him while yet twas dark. —Aubrey de Vere. 78. The Great Voyage. Say wlio, when age on age had rolled away,And still, as sunk the golden orb of day,The seamen watched him, while he lingered here,With many a wish to follow, many a fear,And gazed and gazed and wonderc^d where he bright his jjath, so glorious his first adventured—in his birth born to build a fame that should the great secret of the Deep , issuing through the portals of the West,Fearless, resolved, with every sail unfurledPlanted his standard on the Unknown World?Him, by the Pajniim bard descried of ere his coming sung on either shore,Him could not I exalt—by Heaven designedTo lift the veil that covered half mankind! —Samuel Rogers. () Thou! whose mandate dust inert is this creature man whom Thou hast made?On Palos shore, whose crowded strandBore priests and nobles of the rustic hinds and townsmen trim,And harnessed soldiers ste
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