Columbus.
Steure muthiger Segler! Es mag der Witz dich verhöhnen,
Und der Schiffer am Steur senken die lässige Hand.
Immer, immer nach West! Dort muß die Küste sich zeigen,
Liegt sie doch deutlich und liegt schimmernd vor deinem Verstand.
5 Traue dem leitenden Gott, und folge dem schweigenden Weltmeer,
Wär’ sie noch nicht, sie stieg’...
St. stephen’s cloistered hall was proud
In learning’s pomp that day,
For there a robed and stately crowd
Pressed on in long array.
A mariner with simple chart
Confronts that conclave high,
While strong ambition stirs his heart,
And burning thoughts of wonder part
From lip and sparkling eye.
What hath he said?...
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the Gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores,
Before him only shoreless seas.
The good mate said: “Now must we pray,
For lo! the very stars are gone.
Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?”
“Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’”
“My men grow mutinous day by day;...
Was this his face, and these the finding eyes
That plucked a new world from the rolling seas?
Who, serving Christ, whom most he sought to please,
Willed his one thought until he saw arise
Man’s other home and earthly paradise—
His early vision, when with stalwart knees
He pushed the boat from his young olive-trees,
And sailed to wrest the...
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