@RadishMag but which he believed would be found only after his death:
“If God be so merciful as to conduct my messenger to Spain,
@RadishMag … that Christopher Columbus, with his own fortune, ran the hazard of his own and his brother’s lives,
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@RadishMag … in ten years, and four voyages — and yet was left to perish, all but his chains being taken from him; -
@RadishMag … so that he who gave Spain another world, had neither safety in it, nor yet a home for himself, nor his wretched family: -
@RadishMag … but, should Heaven still persecute me, and seem displeased with what I have done, and as a punishment -
@RadishMag … bring my life to a period in this miserable place, yet do you, good angels, bring this letter to my Queen. -
@RadishMag She knows how much I have done and what I have suffered for her glory and service.” -
@RadishMag Rescue came in June 1504. Columbus and his surviving crew had been marooned for twelve months. -
@RadishMag He returned to Spain in November, and died two years later. A young Thomas Carlyle described him in this way: -
@RadishMag “It is impossible… for any one to write a history of Columbus, how imperfectly soever, -
@RadishMag … without intermingling something of poetry with his narrative. The character of Columbus, -
@RadishMag … so richly furnished with intellectual and moral endowments, his fate, and the great things he accomplished, -
@RadishMag … are of themselves poetical. [The enthusiastic heart and warm imagination, that supported him so long and so bravely —] -
@RadishMag To view him, after long years of anxious waiting, at length embarked with his slender crew, — -
@RadishMag … alone with them upon the wide and wasteful deep, which no keel had ever ploughed, no human eyes had ever seen before; -
@RadishMag … yet bearing fearlessly on, destined to discover a new world, to found new empires, and to change the fate of the old…” -
@RadishMag While the present age may be envious or obdurate, we celebrate the discovery of a New World by the great explorer: -
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