<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426426" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Windsor Prophecy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a holy black Swede, the son of Bob,<br>With a saint at his chin and a seal at his fob,<br>Shall not see one New-Years-day in that year,<br>Then let old England make good cheer:<br>Windsor and Bristol then shall be<br>Joined together in the Low-countree.<br>Then shall the tall black Daventry Bird<br>Speak against peace right many a word;<br>And some shall admire his coneying wit,<br>For many good groats his tongue shall slit.<br>But spight of the Harpy that crawls on all four,<br>There shall be peace, pardie, and war no more<br>But England must cry alack and well-a-day,<br>If the stick be taken from the dead sea.<br>And, dear Englond, if ought I understond,<br>Beware of Carrots from Northumberlond.<br>Carrots sown Thynne a deep root may get,<br>If so be they are in Somer set:<br>Their Conyngs mark thou; for I have been told,<br>They assassine when younge, and poison when old.<br>Root out these Carrots, O thou, whose name<br>is backwards and forwards always the same;<br>And keep thee close to thee always that name<br>Which backwards and forwards is almost the same.<br>And, England, wouldst thou be happy still,<br>Burn those Carrots under a Hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Swift">Jonathan Swift</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426426" data-title="The Windsor Prophecy de Jonathan Swift" data-description="When a holy black Swede, the son of Bob, With a saint at his chin and a seal at his fob, Shall not see one New-Years-day in that year, Then let old England make good cheer: Windsor and Bristol then shall be Joined together in the Low-countree. The..."></div> </div> </div>

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