For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
saw the vision of the world, and all the wonders that could be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm;
Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd
In the parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm of awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
- Alfred Tennyson
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