...are the characteristics and tendencies of modern civilisation, and the future to which they point. " Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for eyer, down the ringing grooves of change." The first and most characteristic feature...

...councils, nor books : "have faith in God;" for " I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep...

...are the characteristics and tendencies of modern civilisation, and the future to which they point. " Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever, down the ringing grooves of change." The first and most characteristic feature...

...fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower tnan the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever dowu the ringing grooves of change. Thro the shadow of the globe we sweep...

...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains 1 Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun...distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro" the shadow of the globe we sweep...

...cannot regard as an escape from the drear wastes of scepticism into which the heretics would fling us. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the great world spin for ever, down the ringing grooves of change ; Through ihe shadow of the globe we...

...it is which lifts out of his idle dejection and selfish dreaming the speaker in " Locksley Hall ;" "Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." / This it is which suggests an apology...

...fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep...

...old, the curlews call." Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag." " Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves...shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day." In the volume of Selections, published in 1865, the fifth line of the poem reads thus : " Locksley...

...tiles of time — I that rather hold lt bntter men should perish one by one, Thau timt earth thould stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in...distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep...