The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1856-05-07
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From, the Sunday Mcrcury.
MERLIN'S PROPHECY.

trologer, who lived in the Eighth century.
Its fnltIlmont, in almost every particular,
rcnoers it the more interesting, (as evi-
denced in the American Revolution. to |
Which reference seems to have been |
made,) induces us to give it to our rca
ders, as copied from Hawkins work. pub |
llShed in the 1880.
In connection with the Prophecy, we
also give the key, furnished 10y an old cit.
lzen Of Philadelphia, to the Columbian
Magazine, published in this city, in the
March number, 1881:
sYLInrAS ORACLE,
Uttered by MeriGm, sometime durinq the
Eighth Century, in Wales, Of rhicA he
TaS a ndtire.
Whom the savage is meek and mild,
The frantic mother shall stab her child.
When the Cock shall WOO the Dove,
The mother, the child shall cease TO love.
When men, like molcS, work under ground
The L'on Iirgin true shall wound
".
When the Dorc and Cock, the Liam shall fight,
The Lion shall crouch beneath their might
Y.
When the Cock shall guard the Edylc's nest,
1he Stars shall rise aH IN the West,
VI.
When Ships above the clouds shall sail
The L'o"s strength shall surely fail
When .Nrptun>'S back with stripcs is r,L
The oickly Lion shall hide his mead.
VIII.
When S"rcm and nr shall make but one
The Lions might shall be undonc
Verse lst.-The Sc,tlement Of America
by civilized nation, is very clearly allud.
cd to in the first line. The frantic mother
Is Br,aln. America still feels the wounds
she has received from her.
Verse 2d.-lhe Cock is France. the
Dove is America, Columbia, their union
is the epoch when America shall cease to
love britain.
Verse 3d.-ln many parts Of Europc
there are sutherland an works carried on,
by persons who never see the Ech, of
day. But, perhaps, the solution may
more particularly be referred TO The siege
OF ofk, IN Virginia. where the approaches
we've Carried on by working in the earth.
In the second line there is another coui.
vogue. We are told by Mr.. ADDISON in
his spectator, that a lion will not hurt "A true
na;d,f This, at first view, seerls to be
contradicted by the prophecy, but, on OK
animation, the epocha referred to, the vIr.
gin, Columbia, Tor, perhaps, Virginia, hv
which name all North America was called
in the DAYS Of Queen EIizabeth.) shall
wound the lion, tliat is Britain, which
shows the precise time when the oracle
should be accomplished.
Verse 4th.-CIeary Y alludes to the sue
cesscs of the upi,cd forces of America and
France against those of Britain.
Verse 5ih.-For the solution of ,hi,
oracle, as well as all the rest, we are in.
deb,ed to the engraving Of the arms ofthe
DiaieG SIaAS. in the CoiaLa5ian Mugq-
zine, for September, 1886. America is
clearly designated hy the Eagles nest, as
II is the only part Of the globe whore the
bpN eagte, Qhc arms Of the United
States,} is to I've found. Thus, this hith
erto inexplicab'e prophecy may now be
easily understood as meaning that when
the cock, that is France, shall protect
America, las she did during the late war)
the stars, that is the standard of the
American empire, shall rise in this Wes-
tern Hemisphere.
Vafsc N,h II ;s yorr Il.
the first discovery Of the amazing proper.
ties Of imfammable air, 10y means of
which men have been able to explore n
region, till then. ;mpervious to them, hap
pened iD tba same year when BriLain's
strength was so reduced as to oblre her
TO acknowledge the independence Of Amer.
ica. The boats, in which the adventurous
eronauts traversed the upper regions, are
the ships here referred to.
Thus far the prophecy seems to have
been already fully and literally accom-.
plished; / Is to 70 hoped that the accom-
pIishment Of those which remain is not far
remote.
Verse 7th.-I understand to mean.
that when the sea (Neptune's Jack) is red
with the 1meriean Stripes, the Naval
power Of Britain shall decline. A proper
eSertion in the art Of ship building, would
sooa pEoduce this effect, and whenever
Congress is vested with the power of reg.
uIating the commerce Of America, we may
h"pe to see the. fSl!, Accomplishment Of
this prediction.
Verse alh.-This oracle clearly alIudes
to an ePocha not far removed, az, we may
hope; for when the hjytsea United Sta: es
shall, under the apspices Of the present
lhe. Witsr here, seems to incline to the
opinion Of Addisop, that a "lion would not