Southwark, Nov. 17. 1851.
339. _Prophecy respecting 1837._--I remember seeing in the year 1837, I
think in one of the morning papers, the following lines, which were
said, as far as my memory serves me, to have been taken from an old
almanac, in which they were prophetical of what should happen in the
above-named year:--
"By the power to see through the ways of Heaven,
In one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven,
Shall the year pass away without any spring,
And on England's throne shall not sit a king."
Can any of your readers inform me whether these lines were only composed
after the events related took place--that is, at the time the lines
appeared in the paper in which I saw them, or whether they are really to
be found in any old almanac; and if so, in what almanac, and in what
year?