 | 1920 - 618 σελίδες
...admirable in cadence, clear depth of philosophic suggestiveness, and the brilliance of literary finish. Behind him lay the gray Azores Behind the Gates of...shoreless seas The good mate said: "Now must we pray Por lo! the very stars are gone Brave Adm'r'l speak, what shall I say?" "Why say: 'Sail on! sail on!... | |
 | 1891 - 642 σελίδες
...SELECTIONS FROM THE POET OF THE SIERRAS. Speak COLUMBUS. OW fades from view the gay Azores, As did the gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of...shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said:"Now let us pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Adimral, what shall I say?" It grew to be time's... | |
 | 1892 - 734 σελίδες
...when the admiral put out to sea from the harbor of Gomera and sailed west for nearly five weeks. " Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of...shall I say ?' Why, say ' sail on ! sail on ! and on ! '" The great poets are after all the best historians. Antiquarians and critics sometimes grope blindly... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1892 - 682 σελίδες
...on Columbus for Mrs. Frank Leslie, and it appears in the January number of her Popular Monthly : — Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of...Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are gone. Brave Adm'rl, speak ; what shall I say 1 " " Why, say : ' Sail on ! sail on I and on ! '" They sailed... | |
 | John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 472 σελίδες
...the Sierras." Horn in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 1o, 1842. From a poem in the New York Independent. Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of...Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Adm'ral, speak; what shall I say?" " Why say, ' Sail on! sail on! and on! '" " My men grow mutinous... | |
 | John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 506 σελίδες
...the Sierras." Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 10, 1842. From a poem in the New York Independtnt. Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of...Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Adm'ral, speak; what shall I say?" "Why say, 'Sail on! sail on! and on!"' " My men grow mutinous... | |
 | 1892 - 828 σελίδες
...never storms ou it blow, Nor runs it too rapid, never runs it too slow; COLUMBUS. BY JOAQUÍN MILLEB. Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of...him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : ''Now let us pray, For lo ! the very stars are «one. Brave Adm'rl, speak ; what shall I say ?" "Why, say,... | |
 | John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 484 σελίδες
...the Sierras." Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 10, 1842. From a poem in the New York Independent. Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, The good mate said, " Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Adm'ral, speak; what... | |
 | Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - 1892 - 188 σελίδες
...settle a colony while Columbus returned to Spain to report the result of this voyage across the ocean. Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores, Hefore him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : " Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are... | |
 | Walter Thomas Leahy - 1894 - 298 σελίδες
...and August, and Clarence stood once more at the opening of school. CHAPTER XT. NEAR1NG THE GOAL. " Behind him lay the gray azores Behind the gates of...shoreless seas, The good mate said now must we pray, For, oh ! the very stars are gone, Brave Admiral speak, what shall I say ? Why say, sail on, and on, and... | |
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Sail on! sail on! and on!'" "My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan and weak." The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn? 
