This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... length due westward slowly sailed the fleet, And by degrees less torrid grew the heat. A gentle breeze the flapping canvas swelled, While foam was in each vessel's wake beheld. The ships from Spain for sixty days had sped Ere land one joyous morn was seen ahead, And then an isle above the waters rose As if ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... length due westward slowly sailed the fleet, And by degrees less torrid grew the heat. A gentle breeze the flapping canvas swelled, While foam was in each vessel's wake beheld. The ships from Spain for sixty days had sped Ere land one joyous morn was seen ahead, And then an isle above the waters rose As if its varied beauties to disclose, And on its shores were waving royal palms--Beyond the surf that sung eternal psalms--Tall, standing in relief against the sky, While other trees in splendor rose as high, One yielding fruit that gave the natives bread. "Let this be Trinidad," Columbus said, "A happy isle so picturesque, and bright, Is to our wearied eyes a lovely sight." The natives flocked in numbers to the shore, And some, as presents, gaudy parrots bore--Birds green and gold, with wings of vivid red, Or with the tints of blue and scarlet, wed--Tame, and submissive to their masters' will, And taught to speak, and imitate with skill. Columbus saw the houris decked with pearls--Bewitching terra-cotta-looking girls--And in exchange he gave them beads of glass, And ornaments of tin, and bells of brass. They asked him how from Turey--yea, the sky--His vessels knew so well the way to fly, And if their world was like the worlds on high. As on the morrow, south-and-west he sailed His eyes were by the continent regaled--A prospect grand, magnificent, sublime.t In the resplendent sunset of the clime There lay the mighty mainland, vast and wild, With hill on hill in wooded grandeur piled--A sight he'd ne'er beheld in days of yore, Though Cabot on its shores had gazed before, And borne the tidings back to England's shore: But of its wondrous future, then, who dreamed, Or how 'twould be from savage life redeemed r There in that glowing...
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Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Generally clean. Advertisement for another Cornwallis book glued inside. Light wear. 284 pages, 19 cm.
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