Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-02

Sadly Columbus watched the nascsnt moon.
Drown In the gloomy oceans western oeptns;;
And strange flowers floated round the wanerd-
ing kea
And yet no land.
And now, when through the dark
The Santa Maria leaped before the gallo
And angry billows tossed the carayels
AS to destruction, Gomez RascOn came
With CAPTAIN PinZon through the frepzied seas
And TO the Admiral brought parchment SCROLL
Saving Good master: Read this writing here
An earnest prayer 10 is from all on board.
The crew would fain turn back In utter fear.
No longer TO the pole the compass points;
Into the zsnith crops the northern star;
You saw but yesterday eve an albatross
Drop dead on deck beneath the flying scud;
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 of 10 Erebus we slide unhelmed.
Last Sunday night Diege saw witch
Dragging the Nina by her forechains west,
And wildly dancing on dolphin's back;
And IS she danced the brightest star In heaven
Slipped from it's leash and sprang into the sea,
Like Lucifer and left trail OF blood;
I uray thee. master, turn again to Spain, obe-
dent TO the omens, or, psrchance,
The terror-stricken Grew TO escape their doom
MAY mutiny and -"
"Gomez Rascon, peace," exclaimed the Ad.
mirsl; thou hast said enough
Now prithee, leave me; would be alone"
Then eagerly Columbus sought a sign
In sea and sky, and in bis lonely heart
Finding instead OF pressages OF nope
The black and ominous portents OF despair.
AS thus he mused he psced che after-deck
Aud gzzed upon the luminous waves astern.
strange life was in the phos phorescent foam,
And through the goblin glow there came and
went
Like elnn shadows on an opal sea,
Prophetic pictures OF land he sought,
He saw the end OF his victorious quest;
He saw, ablaze on Issbells breast,
A string OF Antiilezn jewels rest
The Islands OF the West.
He saw invading plenty dispossess
Old poverty: the land with bounty bless
And through the wretched cayerns Of distress
Walk stsr-eyed hsppinsss
He saw the Bour bon and Braganza prone
For ancient error tGrdy 20 atone,
Giving the plundered people back their own
And flying from the throne.
He saw an I'm pire. radiast as the day,
Hsrnessed 70 law, but under freedoms sway,
Proudly arise, replendent IN array,
To show the world the way.
he saw celestial peace 10 mortal guise.
And filed with hope and thrilled With high
emprise,
Lifting its Tranquil forehead 10 the skies,
vast Republic rise
He saw beyond the hills Of golden corn,
beyond the curve OF autnmn's opulcnt horn
Ceres and Flora iAGghingly sdorn
The bosom OF the morn
He saw a cloth OF gold across the gloom,
An arabesque from evoluuon's loom.
And from the barren prairies' driven spume
Imperial cities bloom
He saw an iron dragon dashing forth
Along an iron fhoroug Efare-So nth, North
East West, uniting in benencent grin
Kemotest ends Of earth
&c saw the lightning run An elnn race,
Where trade love, grief and pleasure interisce,
And absent ones anSlhlate time and spase
Coming face 20 face.
He saw relief through deadly dungeons zrope
Foes turned to brothers. black despair TO hope,
And cannon rust upon the grass-grovn slope
And rot the gallows' rope.
Hesav ,hs babe, on labors' cottage floor.
The fright halls hung with luxury. more and
And comforts radiAn, with unbounding store
Wave welcome 10 the door
He saw the myriad spindles hutter round.
The myriad homes where iocund JOY Il found,
And love ia throned and Gro 1ned-
u.sax exalted ignorance under ban
| Though panoplisd IN force since time began,
And science. consecrs,e d, led the van,
| The proyidence OF mAn-
The picture came and psled aud passed swsy
| And then he SAID to PinzoE Il she gitoa,
4 ssSox Martin. 20 ths wsitlcK helm eEains
1 Hnste 70 the P. IA. westward kee5 her prov,
| For have had vision fall Of liEnt:
Keep her prov 70 the Sestv.rd' IN tne sunsets
From this hour hencs, and let no ma lool