The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-16

birth Of The remarkably long-liVec
specimen of bad verse and insuffer
able rhyme TO within period O
thirty or forty years from the preseu
time, is false. This gentleman is Mr.
Clark, the barber, on Second South
street, Just west OF Ausr Il Murphy's
| He states that when he was boy, be
recollects reading the ancient rhyme
10 an ancient book. He is now sc
wears OF age, and is satisfied be read
II when only about s years old; that il
VIA printed IN book of very antique
fashion, even az that date, iorty-eighi
years ago. and that the type was &C
old and the workmanship so antique
that it was almost obsolete. This same
hook contained an account of the
identity of this lady OF supernatural
powers, who is accredited with the
authorship OF the prophecy. He has
now forgotten nearly all of it, but
recollects that it said she was a ma
tural child, and therefore was held
IN contempt by others, az was the Gus
tom In those days Besides the seclu.
siveness that naturally attended the
allure OF children and persons OF
legitimate parentsge to associate with
her, she was not only of a very retir-
ing disposition, bat also of
a decidedly epirituslistic frame of
mind and body; and was given
to visionary sights. Thus, in
the neighborhood where she lived.
she was Stunned for another than the
original reason, aud was finally
termed a witch. When it came 10
this pass she entered a convent and
became Mother Ursnls. Subse-
quently, she removed to another
place, and vas there made Mother
Superior. The date when she lived.
be does not remember, nor how, nor
when, nor why she wrote the pro-
phecy, but he is pretty well
satisfied that the book to which
he referred made her to have lived
about four centuries prier that time,
and the literary production to be of a
Ike age. He slso recollects that
within distance of about four miles
from place where he used to visit.
Petworth, in Sussex County, there
was a hill kEoWn as Mother Symptoms
bill, and even st that late day be and |
others crossed it with keen sense of
dread lest the witch, Mother Ship
ton, should appear. The prophecy
Is published now as follows:
Carriages without horses shall 90,
And accidents fiji the world with woe.
Around the world thoug hts shall fly
In the twlnkiing Of an eye.
Watsr shall yet mo.e wonders do,
Now strange, yet shall be true.
The world upside down shAll be,
And gold be found at root of tree.
Through hills man sh4ll ride,
And no horse or ass be at his side.
U nGer water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In the al men shall be seen,
IL white, 10 black, in green.
Iron in the water sha ! float,
As cay as ioden boat.
Gold shall be found and found,
In a land that's not now known.
FIRE and wat shall wonders do;
England snail admit Jew.
J be world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
The most interesting piece of infor- t
nation, however, which Nh. Clark c
ives, ls: be says the last libe in the
ID work he read, did not end they
Jay this does row. Substitute Cor the |
Ist coupiel the one:
0 eighteen hundred and eighty-ore S
tTdHge things to the iOorid shall come.
nd you have il the way it was pub l
shed over half century ago. This :
EN- viii life a heavy load from many :
ind', and will break the idol break
rs heart, because there is no longer
lytaing in this idcl to break; and il
.oiner Ship!0n and her prophecy Il
me ont Oh the fiery ordeal trium- 5
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