Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and art . ous King, this seaman list; Sweet visions dawn on me;They image gilded palaces. Beyond a crystal sea. 55 Christopher Columbus. But no, Ferdinand, the unfaithful, counselleddelay. He was conservative, distrustful, self-centered ; he would consider; one must not dis-turb ones equanimity by untoward events—wait. Let us lay the matter before the wise coun-sellors of the realm. That gathering at Salamanca seems to pre-sent an analogy to an earlier gathering of wisechurchmen, set in judgment upon the high en-terprise of another visionary, Joan of Ark
Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and art . ous King, this seaman list; Sweet visions dawn on me;They image gilded palaces. Beyond a crystal sea. 55 Christopher Columbus. But no, Ferdinand, the unfaithful, counselleddelay. He was conservative, distrustful, self-centered ; he would consider; one must not dis-turb ones equanimity by untoward events—wait. Let us lay the matter before the wise coun-sellors of the realm. That gathering at Salamanca seems to pre-sent an analogy to an earlier gathering of wisechurchmen, set in judgment upon the high en-terprise of another visionary, Joan of Ark. Infact, one cannot but compare the two beingscalled upon to perform high and lofty deeds,and who received mistrust and finally crushinginjustice in payment. Joan has been vindicated, and let us hopethat the time is not far distant when Columbusmemory will be cleared of all the imputationsflung upon it. King Ferdinand, he coldly spoke: I will that there shall Salamanca, council held. This sailors scheme to see. —Emily Shaw For man. 56. The Agony of Suspense. SALAMANCA. **And now (the audience gained), at Sala-manca,Before them all, a simple mariner,He stands, unawed by the solemnityOf gowns and caps—with courteous, grave in plain words, unfolding his high pur-pose. —Henry Howard Brownell. Were you at Salamanca? fronted there the learning of all Spain,All their cosmogonies, their astronomies;Guess-work they guessed it, but the golden quessIs morning star to the full round of truth. No guess-work! I was certain of my goal;Some thought it heresy ; that would not David called the heavens a hide, a tentSpread over earth, and so this earth was flat;Some cited old Lactantius: could it be thatTrees grew downward, rain fell upward, menWalked like a fly on ceilings? and besidesThe great Augustine wrote that none couldbreathe 57 Christopher Columbus. Within the zone of heat; so might there beTwo Adams, two mankinds, and that was cleanAgainst
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