For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that could be:
Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales:
Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew
From the nation's airy navies grappling in the central blue;
Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the people plunging through the thunder-storm;
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled,
In the parliament of man, the federation of the world.