• HERE writ was the World's History by his hand
• Whose steps knew all the earth; albeit his
• world
• In these few piteous paces then was furled.
• Here daily, hourly, have his proud feet spanned
• This smaller speck than the receding land
• Had ever shown his ships; what time he hurled
• Abroad o'er new-found regions spiced and pearled
• His country's high dominion and command.

• Here dwelt two spheres. The vast terrestrial zone
• 10His spirit traversed; and that spirit was
• Itself the zone celestial, round whose birth
• The planets played within the zodiac's girth;
• Till hence, through unjust death unfeared, did pass
• His spirit to the only land unknown.