For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm - Alfred Tennyson

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

So now I have sworn to bury
All this dead body of hate
I feel so free and so clear
By the loss of that dead weight.

For I dipt into the future,
far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would 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 raind 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-drums throbbd, no longer, and the battle-flags were furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.