escriptive parts; (_b_)
l. 10; (_c_) the first speeches of Marmion and Douglas,
ll. 14-18, and ll. 21-29; (_d_) the second speeches of
Marmion and Douglas, ll. 32-49, and ll. 52-56; (_e_) ll.
57-58, and ll. 75-88?

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COLUMBUS

Behind him lay the gray Azores.
Behind him the gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores,
Before him only shoreless seas.
The good mate said: "Now we must pray, 5
For, lo! the very stars are gone.
Brave Adm'r'l, speak; what shall I say?"
"Why, say: 'Sail on! sail on! and on!'"

"My men grow mutinous day by day;
My men grow ghastly wan and weak." 10
The stout mate thought of home; a spray
Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
"What shall I say, brave Adm'r'l, say,
If we sight naught but seas at dawn?"
"Why, you shall say, at break of day: 15
'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!'"

They sailed and sailed as winds might blow,
Until at last the blanched mate said:
"Why, now not even God would know
Should I and all my men fall dead. 20
These very winds forget the way,
For God from these dread seas is gone.
Now speak, brave Adm'r'l, speak and say--"
He said: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: 25
"This mad sea shows his teeth to-night;
He curls his lip, he lies in wait,
With lifted teeth as if to bite:
Brave Adm'r'l, say but one good word;
What shall we do when hope is gone?" 30
The words leapt as a leaping sword:
"Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!"

Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck
And peered through darkness. Ah, that night
Of all dark nights! And then, a speck-- 35
A light! a light! a light! a light!
It grew, a starlit flag unfurled!
It grew to be Time's burst of dawn.
He gained a world; he gave that world
Its greatest lesson; "On! sail on!" 40

--_Joaquin Miller_

--_By permission of the publishers, Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co._

WHAT, SHALL, WHY. (Appendix A, 7 and 8.)

Give examples of words or phrases which when repeated
become (1) unemphatic, (2) more emphatic, (3) equivalent
to a climax. (Introduction, pp. 31