Read these lines of poetry:


Behind him lay the gray Azores,

Behind the Gates of Hercules;

Before him not the ghost of shores,

Before him only shoreless seas.

The good mate said: "Now must we pray,

For lo! the very stars are gone.

Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?"


Who is the "Brave Admiral" in these lines?


A.

George Washington


B.

Langston Hughes


C.

Christopher Columbus


D.

Abraham Lincoln