COLUMBUS
Friedrich von Schiller
Sail on, oh captain! Though the mockers grin
And though the helm slip from a heedless hand,
Forever westward! There is a land
Which shall receive you. You have seen
Its shore before your eyes. Trust your skills.
Though oceans may be empty on their verge--
You willed a land. It shall rise from the surge.
For nature always yields what human spirit wills.
1796
(Image is Dioscoro Teofila de la Puebla Tolin, The First Landing of Christopher Columbus in America, 1862.)
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