COLUMBUS THE KING OF DISCOVERERS.
He in the palace-aisles of untrod woods
Doth walk a king; for him the pent-up cell
Widens beyond the circles of the stars,
And all the sceptered spirits of the past
Come thronging in to greet him as their peer;
While, like an heir new-crowned, his heart o'erleaps
The blazing steps of his ancestral throne.—Ibid.
Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.—Ibid.