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... Poems - Side 84av Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Strobe Talbott - 2008 - 505 sider
...dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce,...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bails . . . A couplet later, the blessing turns to a curse. Tennyson foresees a conflict eerily like... | |
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