id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-310 chapter-310 .txt text/plain 381 30 79 Years of the modern! Years of the modern! years of the unperformd! I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the worlds stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Lo, how he urges and urges, leaving the masses no rest! His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the wholesale engines of war, geography, all lands; What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim, The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war, No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights; Years prophetical! O years! Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! The performd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me, ./cache/chapter-310.txt ./txt/chapter-310.txt