When New England shall trouble New Spain,
When Jamaica shall be Lady of the Isles and the Main;
When Spain shall be in America hid,
And Mexico shall prove a Madrid;
When Mahomet’s ships on the Baltic shall ride,
And Turks shall labour to have ports on that side;
When Africa shall no more sell out their Blacks,
To make slaves and drudges to the American tracts;
When Batavia the Old shall be contemn’d by the New;
When a new drove of Tartars shall China subdue,
When America shall cease to send out its treasure,
But employ it at home in American pleasure;
When the New World shall the Old World invade,
Nor count them their lords, but their fellows in trade;
When men shall almost pass to Venice by land,
Not in deep water, but from sand to sand;
When Nova Zembla shall be no stay
Unto those who pass to or from Cathay,
Then think strange things are come to light.
Whereof but few have had a foresight.

From the BEACON, October 25, 1812.