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...funeral pyre intended for Joaquin's eventual use. The place ran on Joaquin's Law: no whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple, a W.C.T.U. member quizzed Joaquin on his inspiration. "Whisky, ma'am," said Joaquin...
...actually believed that his ideas were right, that he sought to make them prevail, that he did not gracefully compound his differences with the men who modified his theories. Our culture would seem to have changed since the days when schoolchildren were taught that for Columbus to say, 'Sail on! Sail on!' was brave and fine, not ill-natured and undemocratic...
...Quebec, returns to England a hero and is assigned by Pitt himself to a delicate diplomatic mission in Paris. There, naturally, he finds his steady old flame Maritza, still possessed of a local reputation for chastity. Happy of heart, Richard and Maritza leave the vanity of Europe behind and sail for the New World to raise Americans...
Villiers may be a partisan of sail, but he is no salt-sprayed sentimentalist. Sailing men may have loved their ships and their calling, but "it was first and foremost a source of employment, a means of livelihood. [The sailor] hated the sea as a savage enemy." Says Author Villiers tartly: "It is landsmen who speak of 'the call of the sea.' " The pay was wretched and the food was often worse. When steam brought hard times, many owners made up crews of teen-age boys who paid for the experience. One such crew of youngsters...
What Villiers mourns is the passing of sailing as a great art, of sailing-ships as things of beauty, of deep-water sail as a moulder of character. "There was no other career comparable with it," says he, 'nor is there likely to be again...