Who you be, and say “Hullo!”

COLUMBUS

By Arthur Hugh Clough

How in heaven’s name did Columbus get over,

Is a pure wonder to me, I protest,

Cabot, and Raleigh, too, that well-read rover,

Frobisher, Dampier, Drake, and the rest;

Bad enough all the same,

For them that after came;

But in great heaven’s name,