ONCE THE PILLARS OF HERCULES WERE THE END OF THE WORLD.

William Gibson.

Thus opening on that glooming sea,
Well seemed these walls [39] the ends of earth;
Death and a dark eternity
Sublimely symboled forth!
Ere to one eagle soul was given
The will, the wings, that deep to brave;
In the sun's path to find a heaven,
A New World—o'er the wave.
Retraced the path Columbus trod,
Our course was from the setting sun;
While all the visible works of God,
Though various else had one.