The great peace-maker: a sub-marine dialogue [in verse]. |
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Strana xi - 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 thunderstorm; 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 in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Strana x - 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 rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Strana viii - Having long been well acquainted with the principal works of Mr Home, I cannot but believe them to be as thoroughly the product of true genius as any of the poetical performances of our time...
Strana 21 - But science also is man's destiny — Whereby 'tis granted to his working brain, His industry, his patience, and resolve, To change his old relations with the law Of space and time ; henceforth dependent made On man's advance in knowledge, and the power Of uring knowledge.
Strana 24 - But in my visions shall thy voice be heard. THE TELEGRAPH. In ages past, the sovereigns of the earth Held human lives as dust beneath their feet, And neighbouring nations born but to be made Their tributary vassals ; distant lands, Having thy broad arm thrown between, appeared As barbarous, — worthy conquest, or contempt, Long devastating wars, or all the scorn That ignorance could breed. The earth was then A feasting place and footstool for its kings. The kings adorned the soldiers...
Strana 26 - Such thoughts and deeds have with those ages passed, And nation knowing nation by the truth, — By actual presence, and familiar words, Spoken or written, henceforth will be slow To see the red necessity of war, Save as a brain-disease of knaves and fools, Nor lend a ready ear to statesmen's tricks, Hatching an insult or alarm of foes, Dispersing thus at home men's active thoughts O'er all their groaning needs and social wrongs.
Strana x - Till England whispers India in the ear, America — north, south — from pole to pole — And words of friendship may pass round the world Between the dawn and noon.
Strana 31 - Its natural sympathy in distant hearts, And war's old beldame prelude, of a witch Sent forth to poison minds and fire the blood With lies and causeless wrath, shall never more Find credence, nor the nations fail to see That slaughtering wars for some decayed great House, The statesman's idol, or his instrument — A royal chess-game of the ignorant past — Are not a people's will, or choice, nor have A people's sympathy, but rather hate, And loathing, and revulsion from the wounds Of memory —...
Strana 18 - THE TELEGRAPH. I am the instrument of man's desire To hold communion with his fellow man, In distant fields — in other climes afar — Swifter than flight of migratory bird — Nay, swift almost as speech from mouth to mouth. THE BEA.
Strana 32 - The ebbing and the flowing of the life Of man's progressing mind perchance may lead To some superior state, while I remain Slumbering beneath the stars.