Saturday, July 09, 2011
The Spirit of Prophecy
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), Dialogue between Two Horses, lines 167-174:
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Both Gallopt to Whitehall, and there Horribly farted,
Which Monarchys downfall portended much more
Than all that the beasts had spoken before.
If the Delphick Sybills oracular speeches,
As learned men say, came out of their breeches,
Why might not our Horses, since words are but wind,
Have the spirit of Prophecy likewise behind?
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