The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller: Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations.Noe, A. H.
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The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller: Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations.
Noe, A. H.
Dreams; Fortune-telling
20. Look in the glass and you will see
Your source of power and frailty.
21. A well known line you may transpose--
“A thorn is always near a rose.”
22. You nobly strive to make it known
“’Tis bad for man to be alone.”
23. Before the present year is out,
Your wedding cards will be about.
24. Drifting away, day by day!
No one to say, “Stay! oh, stay!”
25. A heartless flirt! you’ll penance do
For all the innocents you slew.
26. To you, I’m afraid, it is useless to preach
About the temptations of Rockaway Beach.
27. Merry and free your revelry!
Soon tired you’ll be of deviltry.
28. You’ll give up athletics;
And take to æsthetics.
29. On some fine day, not very remote,
You’ll meet your match on a Rockaway boat.
30. Your head is hot, your heart is cold--
I pity your lot when you grow old.
31. When you’re seized with fits æsthetic,
Take at once a strong emetic.
32. With throbbing heart and trembling hand
Soon at the altar you will stand.
33. You’ll count among your future joys,
Six little girls, six little boys.
34. Before you sip, take firm grip,
You’ll have no slip ’tween cup and lip.
35. Your pace, I fear, is rather fast--
Your love’s by far too hot to last!
36. The greatest blessing you will find,
That Love should be completely blind.
37. Inconstant as the fickle wind,
From day to day you’ll change your mind.
38. Newport is the grand resort
For those, like you, intent on sport.
39. A blow on the pier--a plunge in the brine--
Is all that’s required to make you divine.
40. Lovers come and quickly go
When they find your heart like dough.
41. The slightest rebuff makes you ready to die,
So fatal the kick from a gay butterfly.
42. Like Wilde and such æsthetic guys,
You ape an angel in disguise.
43. When weary of sands and the wild waves’ play,
To the glorious White Mountains fly away.
44. So rich, but sad; suppose you try
The Tonics of Adversity.
45. Ever dreaming, never doing,
You’ll gain nought by seaside wooing.
46. Unless you resolve more social to be
You must stop at home like the Heathen Chinee.
47. You will love and run away,
And live to love another day.
48. You’ll have good cause to bless the day
Your eyes beheld the famed Cape May.
49. You shall have a busy summer,
Flirting hard with each new comer.
50. Be merry now; no more you’ll laugh
When you have found your _bitter_-half.
51. Your sorrow may endure a night,
But joy will come with morning’s light.
52. The darling of your heart’s devotion
Is on the broad Atlantic Ocean.
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