[Fwd: Nostradamus]

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NOSTRADAMUS

Was Nostradamus such a seer,
Did he so much of future see?
His quatrains still produce much fear,
Will all his cataclysms be?

Interpretations seem to find
His visions of the past were true;
But was the future in his mind,
Or is it but by later view?

Could it be all coincidence,
His cryptic quatrains are so vague?
Does prophesy offend our sense,
He saw so much of war and plague.

Do scholars now determine fact
>From rambling often so obscure;
Interpretations made exact,
To former writings make secure.

The arguments wax loud and long,
The skeptics find it all absurd;
But while these doubters think it wrong,
His fans believe his every word.

-- Sol the Sage

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