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A surer star to guide the seaman's eye Than the pale glory of the northern sky; Alike ordain'd to shine, by night and day, Through calm and tempest, with unsetting ray; Where'er the mountains rise, the billows roll, Still with strong impulse turning to the pole, True as the sun is to the morning true, Though light as film, and trembling as the dew. Then man no longer crept With timid oars, And failing heart, along the sheltering shores; Broad to the Winds be spread his fearless sails, Defied the adverse, woo'd the favouring gales, Bared to the storm his adamantine breast, Or soft on ocean's lap lay down to rest; While free as clouds the liquid ether sweep, His white-wing'd vessels cours'd th' untravell'd deep; Boldly from clime to clime he lov'd to roam, The waves his heritage, the world his home. Then first Columbus, with the mighty hand Of grasping genius, weigh'd the sea and land; The floods o'erbalanc'd - Where the tide of light, Day after day, roll'd down the gulph of night, There seem'd one waste of watersz - long in vain His sp1r1t brooded o'er th' Atlantic main; When, sudden as creation burst from nought.
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James E. Montgomery, author of Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books, is currently the Sir Thomas Adams s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall.
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- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 1333749341
- ISBN 13 9781333749347
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages209
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