by his glance.
"Back to Spain!" cry his men; "put the vessel about!
We venture no farther through danger and doubt."
"Three days, and I give you a world," he replied;
"Bear up, my brave comrades--three days shall decide."
He sails--but no token of land is in sight;
He sails--but the day shows no more than the night;
On, onward he sails, while in vain o'er the lee
The lead is plunged down through a fathomless sea.
The second day's past, and Columbus is sleeping,
While mutiny near him its vigil is keeping.
"Shall he perish?" "Ay, death!" is the barbarous cry.
"He must triumph to-morrow, or, perjured, must die!"
Ungrateful and blind! shall the world-linking sea,
He traced, for the future his sepulcher be?
Shall that sea, on the morrow, with pitiless waves,
Fling his corse on that shore which his patient eye craves?
The corse of a humble adventurer, then.
One day later--Columbus, the first among men.

But, hush! he is dreaming! A veil on the main,
At the distant horizon, is parted in twain;
And now on his dreaming eye--rapturous sight--
Fresh bursts the New World from the darkness of night.
O vision of glory! how dazzling it seems;
How glistens the verdure! how sparkle the streams!
How blue the far mountains! how glad the green isles!
And the earth and the ocean, how dimpled with smiles!
"Joy! joy!" cries Columbus, "this region is mine!"
Ah, not e'en its name, wondrous dreamer, is thine.

HONOR THE HARDY NORSEMEN.

The Rev. B. F. DE COSTA, D. D., a well-known New York divine and
social reformer of the present day. Founder of the White Cross
Society.

Prof. Rafri, in "Antiquitates Americanae," gives notices of numerous
Icelandic voyages to American and other lands of the West. The existence
of a great country southwest of Greenland is referred to, not as a
matter of speculation merely, but as something perfectly well known. Let
us remember that in vindicating the Northmen we honor those who not only
give us the first knowledge possessed of the American continent, but to
whom we are indebted besides for much that we esteem valuable.

BRILLIANTS FROM DEPEW.

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, one of the leading American orators of the
nineteenth century. From an oration on "Columbus and the
Exposition," delivered in Chicago in 1890.

It is not sacrilege to say that the two events to which civilization
to-day owes its advanced position are