St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-02
And to the admiral brought parchment
scroll
Saying Good Master: Read this writing

Saying Good Master: Read this writing
here.
An earnest prayer it is from all on board
The crew would fam turn back tn utter fear.
No longer to the Pole the compass points,
Iuto the zenith drops the northern star.
/ on saw but yester cen an albaJross
Drop dead on deck beneath the flying send
The DEVILS wind blows madly from the East
Into the land of Nowhere, and the sea
Keeps sucking us adoWn the maelstrom' s
nav.
Francisco says the edge of Earth is near
And off TO Erebus we slide unhelmed.
Last Sunday night Diego saw witch
Dragging the Nina by her forechaiEs West,
And wildly dancing on a dolphin's back,
And as she danced the brightest star in
Heaven
Slipped from its leash and sprang into the
sea
Like Lucifer, and left trail of blood
| pray thee. Master. turn again to Spain.
Obedient to the Omens. or perchance
The terror-stricken crew. to escape their
doom,
Gomez Rascon, peace exclaimed the ad-
miral Thou hast said enough,
Now prithee leave me; | would be alone"
Then eagerly Columbus sought sign
In sea and sky, and i'll his lonely heart;
Finding instead of presages of hope.
The black and ominous portents of despair.
The wild winds roared around him, and he
heard
Shrill voices cry Return, return. return;'
He thought of Genoa and dreams of youth,
His fathers warnings and his mothers pray
ers,
Confding Beatrix and the prattling babe,
The life and mirth and warmth of old CASTLE.
And tempting comfort of the peaceful land;
And wild winds moaned Return, return, re-
turn
AS thus he mused, he paced the after-deck.
And gaZed upon the luminous waves astern.
Strange life was in the phosphorescent foam,
And through the goblin glow there came ana
went
Like elfn shadows on an opal sea
Prophetic pictures OF the land he sought.
He saw the end of his victorious quest,
He saw blaze on Isabella's breast,
string of Antillean jewels rest,
The Islands of the West
He saw invading Plenty dispossess
Old Poverty. the land with bounty bless,
And through the wretched caverns of Dis
treSs
Walk star-eyed Happiness.
He saw the Bourbon and Braganza prone,
For Ancient Error tardy to atone.
Giving the plundered people back their own,
And flying from the throne.
He saw an empire, radiant as the day,
Harnessed to Law, but, under Freedom S
sway,
Proudly arise, resplendent in array,
To show the world the way.
He saw celestial peace in mortal guise,
And, filled with hope and thrilled with high
emprise,
Lifting its tranquil forehead to the skies,
vast republic rise.
He saw, beyond the hills of golden corn,
Beyond the curve of Autumn's opulent horn
Ceres and Flora laughingly adorn
The bosom of the morn.
He saw a cloth of gold across the gloom
An arabesque from evolution's loom
Ana from the barren prairies' driven spume
Imperial cities bloom
He saw an iron dragon dashing forth
Along an iron thoroughtare-sout north,
East, west, uniting il beneicent girth
RemOtest ends of earth.
He saw the lightning run an elin race
Where trade, love, grief and pleasure inter
lace.
And absent ones annihilate time and space
Communing face to face.
He saw relief through deadly dungeons
grOpe,
Foes turned to brothers, black despair to
hope;
And cannon rust upon the grass-groWn slope
And rot the gallows rope.
Ha saw the babes on labor's cottage floor,
The bright walls hung with luxury more and
more;
And Comfort radiant with abounding store,
Wave welcome at the door,
He saw the myriad spindles flutter round
The myriad mill wheels shake the solid
ground;
The myriad homes where jocund joy is
found,
And Love is throned and crowned.
He saw exalted Ignorance under ban,
Ihough panoplled III force since time began !;
And Science, censecrated, lead the van
The Providence of man.
The picture came and paled and passed awav;
And then the admiral turned as from a
trance,
His hon face agloW; his luminous ewes
Lit with mysterious fire from hidden suns:
And then he said to Pinzon i'll the gloom,
NOW, Martln, to thy waiting helm again;
asIe to the Pinta, fill her sagging sails.
For on my soul hath daWned a Wondrous
sight
Lo thro' this segment of the watery world
Uprose hemisphere of glorious life
realm of golden grain and fragrant fruits
And men and women wise and masterful.
Who dWelt al peace in rural cottages;
And splendid cities bursting into bloom
Great lotus blossoms on a ffowery sea:
And happiness was there, and bright-winged
hope
High aspiration, soaring to the stars.
And then methought o Martin! thro' the
storm
A million faces turned on me and smiled
Now go we torward-forward Fear avaunt /!
1 will abate no atom of my dream
Though all the devils of the underworld
Hiss in The sails and grapple to the keel,
Haste to the Plnta! Westward keep her nrow.
For have had a vision full of light!
Keep her Prov westward i'll lhe sunset S
wake
From this hour hence, and let no man look
back"
Then from the Pinta's foretop fell a CRY.
A trumpet song "Light-ho! light-ho! light.
ho!''