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 Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet
 A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs
  Of read more 
 Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet
 A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs
  Of coming mischief is thy great delight,
   Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass. 
 Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
 Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;
  Is that read more 
 Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
 Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;
  Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so." 
 Till old experience do attain
 To something like prophetic strain.  
 Till old experience do attain
 To something like prophetic strain. 
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
 From hence, no question, has sprung an observation 
. . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some read more 
 From hence, no question, has sprung an observation 
. . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long 
experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive 
to the height of prophetic spirit. 
 The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
 Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.  
 The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
 Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. 
 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, 
behold, he prophesied among the prophets, read more 
 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, 
behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said 
one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? 
Is Saul also among the prophets? 
 This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the 
history of the world . . . read more 
 This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the 
history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new 
era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher 
plane of existence for all the ages of the future. 
 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well 
that ye take heed, as unto read more 
 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well 
that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, 
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any 
private interpretation.