Mother Shipton (part 3}

Here is the final part of Mother Shipton's mini-series.
In common with the suspicion of the age in which she lived, Mother Shipton was sometimes depicted as an ugly looking hag. She was in fact one of the most remarkable prophetic spirits of her time.
Here is the last part of her poem on the end days.

"Then, when the fiercest fight is done, England and France shall be as one.
The British Olive next shall twine in marriage with the German vine
(Common Market)
Men shall walk beneath and over streams: fulfilled shall be our strangest dreams.

All England's sons that plow the land shall oft be seen with Book in hand.(rise of literacy)
The poor shall now great wisdom know.
Great houses stand in far-flung vale all covered o'er with snow and hail.

In nineteen hundred twenty six build houses light of straw and sticks  (the great depression)
For then shall mighty wars be planned.
When pictures seem alive with movements free (motion pictures)
When boats like fishes swim beneath the sea.
When men like birds shall scour the sky, then half this world, deep drenched in blood shall die. (WW 2 air, sea and U Boat warfare.)

But those who live to see this through, in fear and trembling this shall do.
Flee to the mountains and the dens, the bog and forest and wild fens
For storms shall rage and oceans roar, when Gabriel stands on sea and shore.
And as He blows his wondrous horn, Old worlds shall die and new be born."

Carpe Diem!

Ian