Whilst, all my wish and thine complete, By turns we languish and we burn, Let sighing gales our sighs repeat, Our murmursmurmuring brooks return, Let me, when nature calls to rest, And blushing skies the morn foretell, Sink on the down of Stella's breast, And bid the waking world farewell.

Oh how can we Thine acts foretell, When Thou are far more wise than we?

* Let your attitude, gesture and face foretell what you would make felt.

How does fate foretell my future?

The sultry gloaming foretold a near-by storm.

The very children seemed joyless at their play; and everything that met the eye foretold that there was little chance of finding anything in that street but poverty in its most prostrate forms.

No comet need foretell his change drew on, Whose corpse might seem a constellation.

At eve, when first the fading glow Of setting sun foretold the night, The same sweet call came, soft and low, Across the dying light: (Too sweet for cry, Too brief for song, 'Twas but a long, Contented sigh)

Oh how can we thine acts foretell, When Thou art far more wise than we?

Whatever may be the prognosis given to friends, in all febrile cases, the most confident and consoling language about the ultimate recovery should be used to the sick, as prophecies not unfrequently contribute to bring about the event foretold, by making people feel, or think, or act, differently from what they otherwise would have done.