Look up, look forth, and on.
There's light in the dawning sky.
The clouds are parting, the night is gone.
Prepare for the work of the day.
—Bayard Taylor.
A Castilla y Leon,
Nuevo mundo dió Colon.
To Castille and Leon
Columbus gave a New World.
Inscription upon Hernando Columbus' tomb, in the pavement of the cathedral at Seville, Spain. Also upon the Columbus Monument in the Paseo de Recoletos, Madrid.
COLUMBUS
REVERENCE AND WONDER.
John Adams, American lawyer and statesman, second President of the United States. Born at Braintree (now Quincy), Norfolk County, Mass., October 19, 1735. President, March 4, 1797-March 4, 1801. Died at Braintree July 4, 1826.
I always consider the discovery of America, with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
THE GREATNESS OF COLUMBUS.
William Livingston Alden, an American author. Born in Massachusetts October 9, 1837. From his "Life of Columbus" (1882), published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., New York City.