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Thirteen Chapters of American History

Note G — THE DEBARKATION OF COLUMBUS (Morning of October 12, 1492)

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It is difficult to preserve the full beauty of the original of these concise verses in a translation; but in attempting this I have found it quite as easy to rhyme them as to reproduce them simply in the blank verse of the original, in which rhymes occur in only two lines.

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