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First Line: Juan ponce de leon, by the devil taunted
Last Line: For fame hath granted thee immortal youth.
Subject(s): Ponce De Leon, Juan (1460-1521)


Juan Ponce de Leon, by the devil taunted,
Already aged, and steeped in antique learning,
Seeing time thin his hair, to silver turning,
Took ship to find the Fount of Health, undaunted.

On his fair Armada, by false visions haunted,
Three years were lost in voyaging and vain yearning,
Till perils of wind and wave and the unknown spurning,
Florida he saw, where smiles a sky enchanted.

And the Conquistador, kneeling on the strand,
Planted his pennon, with a wavering hand,
In that fair soil, where soon his tomb should lie.

Yet fortunate thy fate, old man, in truth;
Death dost thy last desire gratify,
For Fame hath granted thee immortal Youth.





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