Classic Poem

I read in Dante how that horned light,
Which hid Ulysses, waved itself and said:
" Following the sun, we set our vessel's head
To the great main; pass'd Seville on the right.

" And Ceuta on the left; then southward sped.
At last in air, far off, dim rose a Height.
We cheer'd; but from it rush'd a blast of might,
And struck — and o'er us the sea-waters spread."

I dropp'd the book, and of my child I thought
In his long black ship speeding night and day
O'er those same seas; dark Teneriffe rose, fraught.

With omen; " Oh! were that Mount pass'd", I say.
Then the door opens and this card is brought:
" Reach'd Cape Verde Islands, " Lusitania " ."