| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1214. On a Portrait of Columbus |
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| 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— | 5 |
| His early vision, when with stalwart knees | |
| He pushed the boat from his young olive-trees, | |
| And sailed to wrest the secret of the skies? | |
| He on the waters dared to set his feet, | |
| And through believing planted earth’s last race. | 10 |
| What faith in man must in our new world beat, | |
| Thinking how once he saw before his face | |
| The west and all the host of stars retreat | |
Into the silent infinite of space!
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