The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-03-03
Mother SYMPTOMS Prophecy
n End of the World.

"The World to an end shall come
sin eighteen hundred and eighty-one."
Mother Shipton Is said to have
been born in 1883, and lived during
the reign of Henry VII. In 1641
nearly a hundred years after heI
death, a work was published, emit
tied 'The Prophecies of Mother
Shipton Foretelling the Death OF
4 CaTdinal Wolsey," etc. This work
had a large sale, and whether the
j old lady was a real or a mythical
character like Mrs. Grundy, her
name and prophecy have descended
to us and many are curiously study
ing her prediction that
"The world to an end shall come,
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one."
In the edition of the above work
published for Edwin Pearson in
1870, occurs the prophecy which we
publish below. The point of inter
est in Mother Symptoms prophecy
is, that then the world had never
dreamed of steam, railroads, tele
graphs, crystal palaces, California
gold, jew as the Premier Of Eng
land, France passing through three
revolutions and three times q re
public, universal education, ano
many other things touched by this
quaint old verse.
Many people have thought of the
prophecy in connection with the re
'markable meteorological phenom
sns of the past fall and winter
The unusual conjunction of planets
and their influence upon our atmos
phere, causing, as affirmed by mete
biologists, the long, murky weather,
the heavy rainfalls, the frequent
and destructive storms, tornadoes,
western "biiZzards,
and cyclones that have swept the
Atlantic coasts, and the unprece
tented floods IN one section andI
|frosts in the other; all these are Ia
ken as the foretokens of the great
|iisaster-the end of the world j
MANY look upon the increase OIL
crime, the lawlessness, insubordina
zion, restlessness and recklessness|
as a sign of the times that the world
is upside down and things are out
of Joint. But we advise our friendsI
TO read Mother Symptoms prophe
cies and then go to work as afore-
lime blowing, planting, sowing, saw
ing, and living with ali economy
and frugality, for the world may
last and all things continue as they
were from the beginning long after
this generation shall have passed
away:
a house of glass shall come to pass
In England-but alas F'
War will follow with the work
In the land of the Pagan and the Turk i
And State and State in each fierce strife
win seek each others life.
But when the North shall divide the
South,
An eagle shall build in the lions mouth.
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents I'LL the world with woe,
Primrose Hill in London shall be,
And in its center bishops see,
Around the world thoughts shall fly.
N the twinkling of an eye.
Waters shall yet more wonders do,
Vow strange, yet shall be true,
The world upside down shall be;
And gold found at the root of tree,
hills men shall ride
Ind no horse or ass be by his side,
Jnder water men shall walk,
hall ride, shall creep, shall talk,
u the air mes shall be seen,
n white, in black, in green.
ron in the water shall float,
Is easy a. a wooden boat,
iold shall be found and found II
n land that's not now known,
ire and water shall more wonders do,
.ngland shall at last admit a jew,
he jew that was held in scorn
hall Of Christian be borne and born.
hree times shall lovely France
e led TO dance bloody dance, III
eiore her people shall be free,
hrce tyrant rulers shall she see;
hree times the people rule alone; III
hree times the peoples hope is gone
hree rulers in succession see, N
ach spring from different dynasty,
hen shall the worser fight be done,
ngiand and France shah be as one
II England's sons that pillow the hndH
hall be seen book in hand.
earning shall so ebb and flow,
he poor shall most wisdom know. %
he world TO an end shall come
eighteen hundred and eighty @one. U
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