The Future Divine (a filk)

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81000

This is a filk of the song "Quarter To Nine" from the musical
"Forty-Second Street" titled "The Future Divine."  It is the ninth
filk (not yet the penultimate filk, nor even the antepenultimate filk)
in the new filk-musical "At 12 Grimmauld Place."

This filk is dedicated to Constance Vigilance, in the hope that it
will persuade her to write some more of her delightful Wizarding
nursery rhymes.

Italics are noted by asterisks.


                      The Future Divine

SCENE:  The new Divination Professor, Firenze, explains to his class
why he doesn't set much store by teacups, pink *or* blue, palmistry,
or the crystal ball, and relies almost exclusively on Astrology. 

FIRENZE:
Divinations I can find high up in the night sky, 
Oracles to help answer the question, "Why?"
>From morning until twilight,
My talent doesn't thrive, 
But I know it gets dark at eight forty-five..

The stars are gonna twinkle and shine
This evening,
About a quarter to nine.
The planets, too 
Are gonna give us the sign 
Above us, and we'll the future divine.

I know I won't be late,
'Cause at half past eight 
I'm gonna hurry there.
I'll be waitin' for the show to start,
Waitin' for foreknowledge to impart.                   
And then a prophecy'll be mine,
This evening, we will the future divine.

I know I won't be late, 
'Cause at half past eight 
I'm gonna hurry there.
I'll await the signs of revelations,
Nebulas, stars and constellations.
To help the time-to-come to define,
This evening, we will the future divine.

-Haggridd