Non plus ultra, so the Spaniards said,
\nBeyond horizon, no more to be found
\nLast land on the face of the earth,
\nSee: all sea, no more ground…
\nIreland, Iceland! Outpost Isles of the West:
\nNon plus ultra, so the Spaniards said:
\nSoon proved wrong when put to the test!
\nAnd the guilty, through their ignorance: dead!
\nThe gold gone east, to make the great the best,
\nFrom Amerigo-Argentine to where the foreigners reign
\nPoor people, in the isles Far West
\nTheir words of hope for tomorrow: the old motto of Spain
\nIn the good old days when the Stranger believed
\nThere was nothing more beyond: Non Plus Ultra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Non plus ultra, so the Spaniards said, Beyond horizon, no more to be found Last land on the face of the earth, See: all sea, no more ground… Ireland, Iceland! Outpost Isles of the West: Non plus ultra, so the Spaniards said: Soon proved wrong when put to the test! …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[446,8],"tags":[744,742,743],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral","category-travel","tag-new-world","tag-non-plus-ulstra","tag-spain","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-88","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4155,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/columbus-in-galway\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":0},"title":"Columbus in Galway","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Long before the ocean blue he sailed In a journey history often has told Galways streets were walked by a Gonoan man As provisions he bought and good he sold. 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