COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA

Quote for Today  - October 12,  2012 - The day Columbus saw land in this hemisphere.

"The America of  Moctezuma and Atahualpa,
the aromatic America of  Columbus,
Catholic America, Spanish America,
the America where noble Cuauhtemoc said:
'I am not a bed of roses' - our America,
trembling with huricanes, trembling with Love:
O Men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls,
our America lives. And dreams. And loves.
And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful."

Ruben Dario [ Felix Ruben Garcia-Saramiento], 1867-1916, Cantos de Vida y Espearanza [Songs of Life and Hope] [1905], a Roosevelt (To Roosevelt)


Picture on top: 1993 replicas of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.