Mother Shipton’s Prophecy.
By Uriah Smith
A PIECE of very imperfect poetry, under this title, has been going the rounds of the papers, and has a number of times been sent to this Office for publication. It purports to have been written in 1041, and to be a prophecy of some remarkable event to transpire between that time and the end. Some passages would seem to refer quite distinctly to the wonders of steam and electricity and the discovery of gold. But the last two lines fix the time and name the year for the Lord to come; and that spoils it all; for we have no confidence in any such assertion. We once published all but the last two lines of this prophecy. We did not insert them because some would perhaps fix upon the time, and above all, the impression would very likely obtain that we were time-setters; an impression which we shall be very careful to give no one any occasion to entertain. U. S.