What developments vast in the end of things!

The issue of thousands and millions of slain,

The end of all wars, and the victor’s sure gain—

There’s a league worth while, toward the end of things;

A league of the nations, the long coming star

The prophets of old fore-glimpsed from afar,

A brotherhood true toward the close of things.

The last of the martyr, who passed with a prayer,

The last for the felon, who died in despair—

All good and all ill in the end of things?