and fierce,

Repay the finding of this Western World, Or needed half the globe to give them birth:

Spirit supreme of Freedom! not for this Did great Columbus tame his eagle soul To jostle with the daws that perch in courts;

Not for this, friendless, on an unknown sea,

Coping with mad waves and more mutinous spirits,

Battled he with the dreadful ache at heart

Which tempts, with devilish subtleties of doubt,

The hermit of that loneliest solitude, The silent desert of a great New Thought; Though loud Niagara were to-day struck dumb,

Yet would this cataract of boiling life