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Chains my good lord in your raised brows I read	A
Some wonder at our chamber ornaments	B
We brought this iron from our isles of gold	C
Does the king know you deign to visit him	D
Whom once he rose from off his throne to greet	E
Before his people like his brother king	F
I saw your face that morning in the crowd	G
At Barcelona tho' you were not then	H
So bearded Yes The city deck'd herself	I
To meet me roar'd my name the king the queen	J
Bad me be seated speak and tell them all	K
The story of my voyage and while I spoke	L
The crowd's roar fell as at the 'Peace be still '	M
And when I ceased to speak the king the queen	J
Sank from their thrones and melted into tears	N
And knelt and lifted hand and heart and voice	O
In praise to God who led me thro' the waste	P
And then the great 'Laudamus' rose to heaven	Q
Chains for the Admiral of the Ocean chains	R
For him who gave a new heaven a new earth	S
As holy John had prophesied of me	T
Gave glory and more empire to the kings	U
Of Spain than all their battles chains for him	D
Who push'd his prows into the setting sun	Q
And made West East and sail'd the Dragon's mouth	V
And came upon the Mountain of the World	W
And saw the rivers roll from Paradise	X
Chains we are Admirals of the Ocean we	T
We and our sons for ever Ferdinand	Y
Hath sign'd it and our Holy Catholic queen	J
Of the Ocean of the Indies Admirals we	T
Our title which we never mean to yield	Z
Our guerdon not alone for what we did	A2
But our amends for all we might have done	Q
The vast occasion of our stronger life	B2
Eighteen long years of waste seven in your Spain	C2
Lost showing courts and kings a truth the babe	D2
Will suck in with his milk hereafter earth	S
A sphere	E2
Were you at Salamanca No	F2
We fronted there the learning of all Spain	C2
All their cosmogonies their astronomies	X
Guess work they guess'd it but the golden guess	X
Is morning star to the full round of truth	G2
No guesswork I was certain of my goal	H2
Some thought it heresy but that would not hold	C
King David call'd the heavens a hide a tent	I2
Spread over earth and so this earth was flat	J2
Some cited old Lactantius could it be	T
That trees grew downward rain fell upward men	H
Walk'd like the fly on ceilings and besides	X
The great Augustine wrote that none could breathe	K2
Within the zone of heat so might there be	T
Two Adams two mankinds and that was clean	J
Against God's word thus was I beaten back	L2
And chiefly to my sorrow by the Church	M2
And thought to turn my face from Spain appeal	N2
Once more to France or England but our Queen	J
Recall'd me for at last their Highnesses	X
Were half assured this earth might be a sphere	E2
All glory to the all blessed Trinity	T
All glory to the mother of our Lord	O2
And Holy Church from whom I never swerved	P2
Not even by one hair's breadth of heresy	T
I have accomplish'd what I came to do	Q2
Not yet not all last night a dream I sail'd	R2
On my first voyage harass'd by the frights	T
Of my first crew their curses and their groans	T
The great flame banner borne by Teneriffe	B2
The compass like an old friend false at last	S2
In our most need appall'd them and the wind	T2
Still westward and the weedy seas at length	U2
The landbird and the branch with berries on it	V2
The carven staff and last the light the light	W2
On Guanahani but I changed the name	X2
San Salvador I call'd it and the light	W2
Grew as I gazed and brought out a broad sky	Y2
Of dawning over not those alien palms	T
The marvel of that fair new nature not	Z2
That Indian isle but our most ancient East	A3
Moriah with Jerusalem and I saw	T
The glory of the Lord flash up and beat	E
Thro' all the homely town from jasper sapphire	B3
Chalcedony emerald sardonyx sardius	T
Chrysolite beryl topaz chrysoprase	T
Jacynth and amethyst and those twelve gates	T
Pearl and I woke and thought death I shall die	Y2
I am written in the Lamb's own Book of Life	B2
To walk within the glory of the Lord	O2
Sunless and moonless utter light but no	F2
The Lord had sent this bright strange dream to me	T
To mind me of the secret vow I made	C3
When Spain was waging war against the Moor	D3
I strove myself with Spain against the Moor	D3
There came two voices from the Sepulchre	D3
Two friars crying that if Spain should oust	E3
The Moslem from her limit he the fierce	T
Soldan of Egypt would break down and raze	T
The blessed tomb of Christ whereon I vow'd	G
That if our Princes harken'd to my prayer	D3
Whatever wealth I brought from that new world	W
Should in this old be consecrate to lead	A
A new crusade against the Saracen	F2
And free the Holy Sepulchre from thrall	K
Gold I had brought your Princes gold enough	B2
If left alone Being but a Genovese	T
I am handled worse than had I been a Moor	D3
And breach'd the belting wall of Cambalu	K
And given the Great Khan's palaces to the Moor	D3
Or clutch'd the sacred crown of Prester John	F2
And cast it to the Moor but had I brought	F3
From Solomon's now recover'd Ophir all	K
The gold that Solomon's navies carried home	G3
Would that have gilded me Blue blood of Spain	F2
Tho' quartering your own royal arms of Spain	F2
I have not blue blood and black blood of Spain	F2
The noble and the convict of Castile	K
Howl'd me from Hispaniola for you know	F2
The flies at home that ever swarm about	H3
And cloud the highest heads and murmur down	F2
Truth in the distance these outbuzz'd me so	F2
That even our prudent king our righteous queen	F2
I pray'd them being so calumniated	H3
They would commission one of weight and worth	S
To judge between my slander'd self and me	T
Fonseca my main enemy at their court	H3
They sent me out his tool Bovadilla one	F2
As ignorant and impolitic as a beast	H3
Blockish irreverence brainless greed who sack'd	H3
My dwelling seized upon my papers loosed	H3
My captives feed the rebels of the crown	F2
Sold the crown farms for all but nothing gave	B2
All but free leave for all to work the mines	T
Drove me and my good brothers home in chains	T
And gathering ruthless gold a single piece	T
Weigh'd nigh four thousand Castillanos so	F2
They tell me weigh'd him down into the abysm	T
The hurricane of the latitude on him fell	K
The seas of our discovering over roll	K
Him and his gold the frailer caravel	K
With what was mine came happily to the shore	D3
There was a glimmering of God's hand	H3
And God	H3
Hath more than glimmer'd on me O my lord	H3
I swear to you I heard his voice between	F2
The thunders in the black Veragua nights	T
'O soul of little faith slow to believe	B2
Have I not been about thee from thy birth	S
Given thee the keys of the great Ocean sea	T
Set thee in light till time shall he no more	D3
Is it I who have deceived thee or the world	H3
Endure thou hast done so well for men that men	F2
Cry out against thee was it otherwise	T
With mine own Son '	M
And more than once in days	T
Of doubt and cloud and storm when drowning hope	I3
Sank all but out of sight I heard his voice	T
'Be not cast down I lead thee by the hand	H3
Fear not ' And I shall hear his voice again	F2
I know that he has led me all my life	B2
I am not yet too old to work his will	K
His voice again	F2
Still for all that my lord	H3
I lying here bedridden and alone	F2
Cast off put by scouted by court and king	F
The first discoverer starves his followers all	K
Flower into fortune our world's way and I	Y2
Without a roof that I can call mine own	F2
With scarce a coin to buy a meal withal	K
And seeing what a door for scoundrel scum	T
I open'd to the West thro' which the lust	H3
Villany violence avarice of your Spain	F2
Pour'd in on all those happy naked isles	T
Their kindly native princes slain or slaved	H3
Their wives and children Spanish concubines	T
Their innocent hospitalities quench'd in blood	H3
Some dead of hunger some beneath the scourge	J3
Some over labour'd some by their own hands	T
Yea the dear mothers crazing Nature kill	K
Their babies at the breast for hate of Spain	F2
Ah God the harmless people whom we found	H3
In Hispaniola's island Paradise	T
Who took us for the very Gods from Heaven	F2
And we have sent them very fiends from Hell	K
And I myself myself not blameless I	Y2
Could sometimes wish I had never led the way	K3
Only the ghost of our great Catholic Queen	F2
Smiles on me saying 'Be thou comforted	H3
This creedless people will he brought to Christ	H3
And own the holy governance of Rome '	M
But who could dream that we who bore the Cross	T
Thither were excommunicated there	D3
For curbing crimes that scandalised the Cross	T
By him the Catalonian Minorite	H3
Rome's Vicar in our Indies who believe	B2
These hard memorials of our truth to Spain	F2
Clung closer to us for a longer term	T
Than any friend of ours at Court and yet	H3
Pardon too harsh unjust I am rack'd with pains	T
You see that I have hung them by my bed	H3
And I will have them buried in my grave	B2
Sir in that flight of ages which are God's	T
Own voice to justify the dead perchance	T
Spain once the most chivalric race on earth	S
Spain then the mightiest wealthiest realm on earth	S
So made by me may seek to unbury me	T
To lay me in some shrine of this old Spain	F2
Or in that vaster Spain I leave to Spain	F2
Then some one standing by my grave will say	K3
'Behold the bones of Christopher Col n'	F2
'Ay but the chains what do they mean the chains '	M
I sorrow for that kindly child of Spain	F2
Who then will have to answer 'These same chains	T
Bound these same bones back thro' the Atlantic sea	T
Which he unchain'd for all the world to come '	M
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O Queen of Heaven who seest the souls in Hell	K
And purgatory I suffer all as much	L3
As they do for the moment Stay my son	F2
Is here anon my son will speak for me	T
Ablier than I can in these spasms that grind	H3
Bone against bone You will not One last word	H3
You move about the Court I pray you tell	K
King Ferdinand who plays with me that one	F2
Whose life has been no play with him and his	T
Hidalgos shipwrecks famines fevers fights	T
Mutinies treacheries wink'd at and condoned	H3
That I am loyal to him till the death	M3
And ready tho' our Holy Catholic Queen	F2
Who fain had pledged her jewels on my first voyage	N3
Whose hope was mine to spread the Catholic faith	O3
Who wept with me when I return'd in chains	T
Who sits beside the blessed Virgin now	F2
To whom I send my prayer by night and day	K3
She is gone but you will tell the King that I	Y2
Rack'd as I am with gout and wrench'd with pains	T
Gain'd in the service of His Highness yet	H3
Am ready to sail forth on one last voyage	N3
And readier if the King would hear to lead	H3
One last crusade against the Saracen	F2
And save the Holy Sepulchre from thrall	K
Going I am old and slighted you have dared	H3
Somewhat perhaps in coming my poor thanks	T
I am but an alien and a Genovese	T