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... Calendar - Page 406by University of St. Andrews - 1905Full view - About this book
| Naval art and science - 1872 - 1120 pages
...human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be ; Saw the havens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down their costly bales ; Heard the Heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the... | |
| 1842 - 788 pages
...ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...and all the wonder that would be'; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...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... | |
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...ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
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| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...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... | |
| American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...other. Again, when our greatest living poet " dips into the future" what does he see? " The heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." Why, it might be the vision of a young general merchant. I doubt whether anything similar could be... | |
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...reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : . For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...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... | |
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