Show L Mother Shipton Poem i First Appeared in 1641 The poem Mother Shiptons Shipton's Prophecies or that part which prophesies about carriages without without without with- with out horses and airships as it appeared appeared appeared ap- ap from time to time toward the middle of the last century is given here Carriages without horses shall shaIl go And accidents fill fiU the world with woe Around th the world thoughts shall shaH fly In the twinkling of an eye Under water man shall shaH walk Shall ShaH ride shall shaH sleep p. p shall shaH talk In the air men shall shaU be seen In white in black in green Iron in the water shall shan float As easily as a wooden boat And the world to an nn end shall shan comeIn comeIn come comeIn In eighteen hundred and eighty These last lines caused something of ot a commotion among the credulous credulous credulous lous but the year rear came and went without calamity Mother Shipton is a character of somewhat doubtful authenticity The tradition is that she was bornI born I in a cave in Yorkshire in 1488 misshapen of indifferent size and 1 a L bt 6 bU aH 1 Jw at she startled her teachers by her hert t precocity that she married a Thomas Shipton when she was twenty four and that she correctly foretold the time of her death which is said to have occurred in 1561 Despite the suggestion that she was entirely a fictitious personage there is a stone near Shipton England Eng Eng- England land which bears this epitaph Here lies she that never l lyd d Whose skill so often has been Her prophecies shall shaH still stin survive And ever keep her name alive Her prophecy was first published published published pub pub- in London anonymously in which was 80 years after the reputed date of her death |