COLUMBUS.
Mr George E. Woodbury publishes in the Century a sonnet on a portrait of Columbus, which I quote: — Was this the face, and these the finding eye 3 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 secret of the skies 2 He on the waters dared to set his feet, And through believing planted earth,s last race. 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 lu to the infinite abode of space '
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New Zealand Mail, 21 July 1892, Page 12
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