<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118426" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How In All Wonder...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How in all wonder Columbus got over,<br>That is a marvel to me, I protest,<br>Cabot, and Raleigh too, that well-read rover,<br>Frobisher, Dampier, Drake and the rest.<br>Bad enough all the same,<br>For them that after came,<br>But, in great Heaven's name,<br>How he should ever think<br>That on the other brink<br>Of this huge waste terra firma should be,<br>Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How a man ever should hope to get thither,<br>E'e'n if he knew of there being another side;<br>But to suppose he should come any whither,<br>Sailing right on into chaos untried,<br>Across the whole ocean,<br>In spite of the motion,<br>To stick to the notion<br>That in some nook or bend<br>Of a sea without end<br>He should find North and South Amerikee,<br>Was a pure madness as it seems to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What if wise men had, as far back as Ptolemy,<br>Judged that the earth like an orange was round,<br>None of them ever said, 'Come along, follow,<br>Sail to the West, and the East will be found.'<br>Many a day before<br>Ever they'd touched the shore<br>Of the San Salvador,<br>Sadder and wiser men<br>They'd have turned back again;<br>And that he did not, but did cross the sea,<br>Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me.<br>And that he crossed and that we cross the sea<br>Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118426" data-title="How In All Wonder... de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="How in all wonder Columbus got over,/That is a marvel to me, I protest,/Cabot, and Raleigh too, that well-read rover,/Frobisher, Dampier, Drake and the rest./Bad enough all the same,/For them that after came,/But, in great Heaven's name,/How he sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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