The Genoese his world’s horizon scanned;
Fools scoffed him, savants laughed and bishops banned
With Columbus perished all their ancient ways,
Old forms and thought, and fetters of content;
Seaward with him fled Europe’s yesterdays
To timeless banishment.
Men mock and are forgotten; laurel-tressed
Are they who brave the banning and the jest.
(Burnett A. Ward)
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