A snippet from a fantastic poem

Wow I certainly haven't made a post in a very long time. My mind has been on other things. I've been thinking a lot lately about the future of the United Nations and of mankind in general. Anyway, in The Parliament of Man by Paul Kennedy, he starts the book with a poem from Lord Tennyson. The poem is a section of "Locksley Hall":


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’d 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-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.

I love this poem, hope anyone who reads this enjoys.

Peace