...pulsation that I felt before the strife, When I heard my days before me, and the tumult of my life ; " Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained...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...

...descrihes the efl'ect of a battle of balloons : " Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there raiti'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue." And it is rather curious that Lucian should have coincided with one of the freaks of nature in describing,...

...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...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...

...daring. If we compare the Roman lyrist with our own Laureate, we find the latter inventing a hero who " Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue." The dream is a sufficiently wild one. It may well be doubted whether balloons will carry costly bales...

...material obstacles, which a great poet of past days, in the strength of his poetic foresight, beheld — ' Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;' for surely if we are proud of fathoming the depths of the upper air, of having reduced to an absolute...

...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...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...

...eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be : Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with cosily bales: Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nation's...

...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...

...But I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of tho worlj, and all the glory that would be, Saw the heavens fill with commerce argosies of magic saile, Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales", etc. " Not in vain the distance...

...pools among, Were flooded over with eddying song. FROM LOCKSLEY HALL. VISION OF THE "WORLD'S PEOGRESS. For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...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...