The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-10
VISION OF COLUMBUS.

Chicago at the oeulcatl0n Of the Worlds
Fair buildings.
Sadly on Columbus watched the nascent
moon
DR. ,wn in the gloomy oceans western decrs.
Strange birds that day had tluttered in the
And strange flowers fioated round the
wandering keel,
And yet no land. Aud now, when through
the dark
The Santa Maria leaped before the rale,
And angry bilows tossed the carave!s
AZ to destruction. Gomez Rascuu came
With Captain Pinzon through the irtnzied
seas,
And to the admiral brought n parchment
scroll,
Saying, Good master: Read this writing
An earnest prayer IL Il from all on board.
The crew would iain turn back In utter
fear.
No longer TO the pole the compass points;
Into the zenith crops the northern star.
You saw but Yesterday eve an albatross
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 ndown the maelstrom's
NAV.
francisco says the edge Of earth is near
And of the Erebns we slide unhelmed.
Last Sunday night Diego saw II witch
Dragging the Nina by her iorechains
west,
And wildly dancing on a dolphin's back;
And az she danced the brightest star in
heaven
Slipped from its lash and sprang into the
sen,
Like Lucifer, and left trail Of blood.
pray thee, master, turn again 10 Spain,
Obedient to the omens. or perchnnce,
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doom
May muiiny and"
Gomez Rascon. yeace,"
Exclaimed the admiral: Thou hast said
enough
Now, priih,e, leave me; would be
a.one.'
Then eagerly Columbus sought sign
In sea and sky. and in his lonely heart
Finding instead Of prcsages Of hope
The black and ominous portents ofdespair.
AS thus he unused he paced the altprdeck
And gazed upon the luminous waves nstern.
Strange life was in the phosphorescent foam,
And through the goblin glow there came
and went
Like eltin shadows on an opal sea.
Prophetic pictures Of the land he sought.
He saw the end of his victor ous quest,
He saw ablaze on lsebclrs breast
4 string OF Antillean jewels rest
The islands Of the West.
Old poverty, the land with bounty bless
And through the wretched cayerns Of dis
tress
Walk star.eyed happiness
He saw the Bourbon and Bragnn2i prone,
For ancient error tardy To atone,
Giving the plundered people back their own
And flying from the throne.
lie saw an empire, radiant ne the day,
Harnessed TO law, but under freedoms
sway,
Proudly arise. resplendent in array,
To show the world the wav.
lie saw the celestial peace in mortal grise
And. filled with hope and thrilled with high
emprise,
Lifting its TRANQUIL forehead TO the skies
a vast republic rise.
lie saw beyond the hills Of golden corn,
Beyond the curve of autumn's opulent horn,
Ceres and Flora laushingly adorn
The bosom of the morn.
He saw n cloth OF gold across the gloom,
! An arabesque from evolutions loom.
| And from the barren prairie's driven spume
! Imperial cities bloom.
| He saw an iron drngoon dashing forth
| Along an iron thorol olghfare-south, north
/ East, west-unting in benetcient girth
/ Remotest ends of earth.
! He saw the lightning run an elfn race
! Where trade, love, grief and pleasure inter
lace
{ And absent ones annihilnte time and space
/ Communing face TO face.
He saw relief through deadly dungeom
! grope
Foes turned to brothers, black despair 10
And cannon rust upon the grass grown
| slope
And rot the Galows rope.
/ He saw the babes on labor's cottage floor,
The bright wall hung with luxury more
and more.
And comfort. radiant with abounding store,
Wave welcome TO the door.
He saw the myriad srindles futter round
The myriad homes where jocund Joy 10
| found
| And love is throned and crowned.
| He saw exalted ignorance under ban,
| Though panollied in force since time be-
gan,
And science, consecrated, led the van,
The providence OF man.
The picture came and paled and passed
| away,
| And then he said to PIrzon in the gloom
Now, Martin. TO thy waiting helm again;
Haste the Pinta; westward keep her
For have had a vision full Of light
Keep her Prov westward in the sunsets
wake
From this hour hence and LET no man look
back"
FARM WORK RETARDED.