{"collection":"nos","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nos/oon/oon01.htm","path":"nos/oon/oon01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nos/oon/oon01.htm","text":"Oracles of Nostradamus, by Charles A. Ward, [1891]\nTO MY MOTHER\n\u039f\u1f50\u03b4\u1f72\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03ce\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03c3\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u1f78\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u1f78\u03c2 \u1f04\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd\n \u1f1c\u03c0\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf, \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c3 \u1f41\u03c3\u03af\u03b7, \u039a\u03cd\u03c1\u03bd\u03b5, \u03bc\u03ad\u03bc\u03b7\u03bb\u03b5 \u03b4\u03af\u03ba\u03b7.\nTHEOGNIS, p. 16, ed. 1766.\n\"But higher far my proud pretensions rise,--\n The son of parents passed into the skies.\"\nCOWPER, On My Mother's Picture, line 110.\nIF THERE CAN BE ANYTHING IN A BOOK LIKE THIS WORTHY OF DEDICATION TO A BEING SO NOBLE AS THOU IN LIFE WERT EVER, A BEING NOW MORE ENNOBLED STILL BY THE HEAVEN-BLEACHED RAIMENT OF IMMORTALITY PUT ON; TO THEE, PURE SOUL SERENE! TO THEE DOES THY STILL LOVING SON, EARTH-HAMPERED, DEDICATE THIS THE BEST LABOUR OF HIS HEART AND HEAD AND YEARS. THE BEST OF IT IS THINE INDEED ALREADY; AND WERE THE REST WORSE HARVESTED THAN PERHAPS IT IS,--MORTALITY BEING ALLOWED FOR DULY,--THY SOUL RECEIVING MUST BE MUCH CHANGED BY EXALTATION, IF QUEEN-LIKE, IT CANNOT MAKE A SORRY LOVE-GIFT RICH BY GOLDEN WELCOME GIVEN IT.\nIF THINGS OF KITH BE KIN, GOD WILLING, WE SHALL MEET AGAIN ERE LONG. TILL WHEN, FROM THIS BARE HEATH TERRENE AND HOMELESS, I SPEED THE WORD ADIEU. DEAR ONE! FOR A LITTLE WHILE ADIEU.\nTHY SON,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n Mr. C. A. W.","title":"Oracles of Nostradamus: Dedication","type":"page"}