Monday, July 28, 2008

Poetry...?

Now, who can tell me what the following verses are? A clue: they are called Quatraints. Yes, you can Google them if you like. No opposition.

In the end there will be one Monarch
Who will not long be in peace or alive;
Then the finishing bark will be lost
It will be ruled to its greater detriment (CI-4)
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The scourages passed the world shrinks,
For a long time peace and populated lands:
One will travel safely by air, land, sea and wave,
Then the wars stirred up anew. (CI-63)

They will think they have seen the Sun at night
When they will see the pig half-man:
Noise, song, battle, fighting in the sky perceived,
And no one will ear beasts talking. (CI-64)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bravo Bravo!!! :) :) :) :) :)

Anonymous said...

Are they the prophecies of Nostradamus?

Random Irregular said...

Maybe...

Gabrielle Hass said...

The prophecies of Nostradamus. The Quatraints. Easy.

bloody awful poetry said...

Yes, I think they are Nostradamus, actually. I have a book of his quatrains around here somewhere but I'm too lazy to check which ones they are.

Random Irregular said...

Yes! You are all RIGHT! Gosh, you people are really, really smart!
The first Quntraint talks about Napoleon and his Monarchy thingy and the second one talks about WWI and I think WWII or both.