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 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." 
 No mighty trance, or breathed spell
 Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.  
 No mighty trance, or breathed spell
 Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 
 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for 
ever?  
 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for 
ever? 
 My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:
 Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.  
 My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:
 Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. 
 There is a history in all men's lives,
 Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
  The which read more 
 There is a history in all men's lives,
 Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
  The which observed, a man may prophesy,
   With a near aim, of the main chance of things
    As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
     And weak beginnings lie intreasured. 
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
 I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
 [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]  
 I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
 [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.] 
 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.