First linesJoel Barlow

  1. But now had Hesper from the Hero’s sight Book IX
  2. But of all tales that war’s black annals hold Book VI
  3. Columbus hail’d them with a father’s smile, Book V
  4. Hail, holy Peace, from thy sublime abode Book VIII
  5. Hesper again his heavenly power display’d Book X
  6. High o’er his world as thus Columbus gazed, Book II
  7. I sing the Mariner who first unfurl’d Book I
  8. In one dark age beneath a single hand, Book IV
  9. Now twenty years these children of the skies Book III
  10. Thus view’d the Pair; when lo, in eastern skies, Book VII

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