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Title: Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and art
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Ryan, Sara Agnes
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher
Publisher: Chicago, The Mayer and Miller company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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either sword nor shield, Where souls heroic bleed invisibly. And falter not; for down the watchful sky A whisper bids them onward to the end, And their own echoes answer, To the end! To such, though to the glory round us shedOf right divine to rule, they bow the head,Our lives must seem, with all that they have won.Like some small planets transit oer the sun.They seek a greater prize than that we seeWhere red Alhambra lifts the Hand and Key,And loftier walls to scale, or batter down,Than those that oer the rushing Darro frown. A visionary, is he? Marked you howStraight line on line ruled that studious brow?Guessed you no sovereign text engraven thereTwixt the wide-swelling temples silvered hair?A visionary! No great plan on earthTo which foreseeing minds have given birthWas eer accomplished, but some heart of stoneFound it impossible—till it was done! Bring me my jewels—necklace, clasp and ring.Bracelets and brooches, every shining thing!Let not a single pearl roll out of sight 74
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The Agony of Suspense. Of all 1113^ orient strings of milky light;Miss not the heads of onyx finely wrought,AYithhold no sun-bright diamond. Theres naughtOf cunning gold-work, nor of radiant stone,Too precious to help pave the path whereonBeyond the unknown waters, vast and dun,The Cross shall travel with the westering sun!Bring my Castilian gems whose wedded shineTwo kingdoms joined their hands to place in mine.Ah, my strong Castile and my brave Leon!I brought no lamb in fold to Aragon! —Mary Agnes Tucker. Then spake the queen: Be it done for me. Heres my jewels, for woe or weal.And she took the gems from her shining hair,And the priceless pearls she was wont to wear, And she said, For my own Castile. —8. H. M. Byers. It is only ^poetically that Isabella pledgedher jewels—for that sacrifice was unnecessary,as Santangel himself and other persons ofwealth would have advanced the money. It wasprocured from the Exchequer of Aragon—Ferdinand allowing its loan only. It was repaidby

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