Identifier: christophercolum00ryan (find matches)
Title: Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and art
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Ryan, Sara Agnes
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher
Publisher: Chicago, The Mayer and Miller company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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me hasnot been given to this new land which he dis-covered,—collectively,—we figuratively speakof our part of it as Columbia—the Gem ofthe Ocean; and the district set aside to con-tain our national capital is named for him. In that capital is his monument, glorious inits splendor, and placed through the initiativeof the Knights who bear his name ; and thebronze doors of the Capitol building portrayscenes from his life, while his statue is placedin the portico. Geographically also is he hon-ored—by England, in her British Columbia ;in South America by Colombia, which possessesa monument presented by the Empress Eu-genie; and the erstwhile small town Colon isnow famous as being at the end of the PanamaCanal, *the new way to India. Other cities bear his name—Columbus, Ohio ;Columbus, Georgia ; Columbus, Kentucky ;Columbus City, Iowa; while counties, rivers,colleges, museums, asteroids commemorate it.Every spot upon which he touched in this NewWorld he marked with a Cross— 158
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TIic Mayiiiflcent Mausoleum of Marble and Kron/,e erected in tlie Cathedral at Santo l)oininK<) to contain the ashes of the Illustrious Discoverer of America Posthumous Glory. Oh ! gladly I went forth, Toil-worn and tired, yet joyous even then To bear to realms unfound the name of Christ, And set His cross there, sign of life in death. So where the first mark of the New World shone,A twinkling light upon a shore unseen.We raised the Cross—there on San SalvadorAnd all along Cipango and CathayAnd fertile Ornofay we showed the cross;Then later by that three-hilled isle that roseFrom out the waves, type of the Trinity ;And on Paria, called the coast of pearls,Where the sweet stream from Edens Tree of LifeFlowed down and mingled with the bitter ^ —George Parsons Lathrop. —and now practically every spot upon which hetouched in life is marked by a monument to hishonor. His first landing place which he namedSan Salvador has been identified as WatlingsIsland, and its memorial has been

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