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“MOTHER SHIPTON’S PROPHECY’’
[Welland Tribune August 25, 1905]
The lines were first published in England in 1485 before the discovery of America and before any of the discoveries and inventions mentioned therein. All the events predicted have come to pass except that in the last two lines, in which Mother Shipton, like a good many others, would seem to have made a mistake.
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe;
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Waters shall yet more wonders do.
Now stranger yet shall be true,
The world upside down shall be,
And gold be found at root of tree.
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse nor ass be at his side.
Under water man shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk;
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, in green
Iron in the water shall float
As easily as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found ‘mid stone
In a land that’s now unknown.
Fire and water shall wonders do;
England shall at last admit a Jew,
And the world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred ad eighty-one.
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