The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-13
The Vision Of Raleigh
Poem Read by Dr. Thomas Page the Virginia Day Celebration the
jamestown Exposhon June 9TH
"Go, Soul, Tho Body's Guest.

Gagged like an eagle In these stony wallis
Fast barred by iron gratings In my coll,
With harsh attninder passed upon my life,
The shrewd-odged nx hung per mo by q hair.
i walter Raleigh. still an, more than ffooi
Like Calico in his lonely tower.
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!, drive with flaming steeds across the main
t. view the y sas land 's queen
Mid rosy depths, suured by tho Evening STAR
as ss' 1sS liz ss4s s Spheres
TO sail the moonllt reaches Of the wost. .s
m,n rs how e boy on psyens aeoa ms.
Climb up the misty, azure plain, till high
fanoed thut the vast Western World
Columbus pucked from must march with Heaven
And time In the receding tide
cast n flag made MI OF stars and slreds.
Ana seise s'n mighty oy Ensands Queen.
The young Diana Of the morning skies
Aack Next flood my pennon cast ashore.
undaunted still nailed IT., + to a1 mast,
And now like Noal's dove it came no more.
Thus, knew well. the far fair land was mine.
4s esss fo ns
God showed me visions Of the Promised Land
Whose milk and honey fed the minds ,l Of Of men,
Thenceforthg1 questioned every sailer lad
TO know II he had seen my banner thore;
And in Jest noting my xndng eyes. aae
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And 1 In JOY did shout. '"r,y name. good lad?"
A0m srave name S'sD toe cried ports mel
And drawer yet, ,c'rst-bearer christopher''
One world to give to Arragon;
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And plant for aye the banner Of ST. George.
Thenceforth watched the wind led westering ships
And fancoa cyelopian ooks that ranged
Which day would shepherd through the
Cvo,, icG Jvo1vo hold frh arnj m
Twas this that planted fires within my breast
Unquenchable by time toll or blood;
This flaming to the Netherlands
TO learn in youth, on that wolf ravaged plain
The craft to fol- M
Whereat, Columbus-lke, cast world
oft have seen in watches Of the night-
OF; seer's ,far thrown thought ri
A vision Of realm ! never knew aa pff6
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Or fair Utopia, Tapped by Fancys seas;
fairer far than these and nobler for;
For men grew in that air to rule themselves,
And beacon high for all the world.
pilot star. whereby the nations steered
Methought saw three little carayels
My flag at peak. frcighted with Destiny
The admiral, my brave lad, Christopher
Whose name held onion that he ne bore the Christ
And in their wake the naviess OF mankind. .p
And nouted spains red banner in her imais ,{8
ToSlimp at last within Virg ina's capes-
Those lone and silent sentries OF tho West
And their anchor in an inland sea. x o. A.
Whose waters made music in mine ears .a38.5. edit
More sweet than harping Of the. seraphn. II .fss
Twas spring and IKE pride to ea h s6bs lord
OF tenderest green decked all with dewy gems,
Distilled from waters of unsullied springs,
Wherein chaste Dian bathes her snowy limbs g
unfrighted by the fierce -mouthed cannon's roar,
Deep-bosomed forests rang melodiousy;
While April skies smiled down their benisons
heard the trumpet sound They moored their banks
Whose fountains sprang beneath tn unclarted skies
And temper every CLINE for every age
Not Nile nor Tibcr poured rich flood;
With cables fine, by the silent fates,
Then anchored they tho old world to the New,