WORLD FEDERATION
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —The following verses from Lord Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall” are of interest to-day in view of the increasing attention that is being given to the question of World Federation.
For a dip’t 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 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, 1 rap’t in universal law.
Tennyson wrote Locksley Hall in 1886, 17 years before the invention of the aeroplane, and how long (before “World Federation?”—l am etc.,
“MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN.” Waitakaruru. 27:8:43.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32305, 27 August 1943, Page 5
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194WORLD FEDERATION Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32305, 27 August 1943, Page 5
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