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Where God was worshipped, night and day,
And the dead knelt round in stone;
They entered, and from aisle to aisle
Wandered with folded arms awhile,
Where on his altar-tomb reclined
The crosiered Abbot; and the Knight
In harness for the Christian fight,
His hands in supplication joined ;-
Then said as in a solemn mood,

"Now stand we where COLUMBUS stood !"

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"PEREZ, thou good old man," they cried,
"And art thou in thy place of rest?-
Tho' in the western world His grave, +
That other world, the gift He gave, +
Would ye were sleeping side by side!
Of all his friends He loved thee best."

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The supper in the chamber done,
Much of a Southern Sea they spake,

And of that glorious City § won

Near the setting of the Sun,

Throned in a silver lake;

* Late Superior of the House.

In the chancel of the cathedral of St. Domingo.

The words of the epitaph. "A Castilia y a Leon nuevo Mundo

dio Colon."

$ Mexico.

Of seven kings in chains of gold
And deeds of death by tongue untold,
Deeds such as breathed in secret there
Had shaken the Confession-chair!

The Eldest swore by our Lady, + the Youngest

by his conscience; by in his grey habit, self again and again. he at last," the work It tells of things you have mentioned; and, were Cortes and Pizarro here, it might perhaps make them reflect for a moment." The Youngest smiled as he took it into his hand. He read it aloud to his companion with an unfaltering voice; but, when he laid it down, a silence ensued; nor was he seen to smile again that night. "The curse is heavy," said he at parting, "but Cortes may live to disappoint it.""Ay, and Pizarro too!"

while the Franciscan, sitting turned away and crossed him"Here is a little book," said of him in his shroud below.

* Afterwards the arms of Cortes and his descendants. + Fernandez, lib ii. c. 63.

B. Diaz, c. 203.

"After the death of Guatimotzin," says B. Diaz, "he became gloomy and restless; rising continually from his bed, and wandering about in the dark."-" Nothing prospered with him; and it was ascribed to the curses he was loaded with."

*. A circumstance, recorded by Herera, renders this visit not improbable. "In May, 1528, Cortes

arrived unexpectedly at Palos; and, soon after he had landed, he and Pizarro met and rejoiced; and it was remarkable that they should meet, as they were two of the most renowned men in the world." B. Diaz makes no mention of the interview; but, relating an occurrence that took place at this time in Palos, says, 'that Cortes was now absent at Nuestra Senora de la Rábida.' The Convent is within half a league of the town."

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