"Many A Night I Saw The Pleiads..."

"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."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson; from Locksley Hall, written in 1835.