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Acrostics in Prose and Verse, a Sequel to Double Acrostics by Various Authors, Ed. by A.e.h.
Acrostics in Prose and Verse a Sequel to Double Acrostics by Various Authors Ed by Aeh Author:A E H General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 3. Sea king's daughter. 4. Nation whose identity is revived in acrostics. 5. Style of architecture belonging to the past. 10. TRIPLE ACROSTIC. Mutton and beef are dear and scarce, in this our present day, But undertake of us the charge, you're sure to make it pay. 1. If to this suggestion you listen indeed, To insure your success, to my First give great heed. 2. Nor deem me my Second because I thus dare, With you my experience and knowledge to share. 3. Whilst I make it my Third with much pleasure to you, I trust you will my Third give me hearty and true. 4. Then visit my Fourth, if you e'er have a mind, In their own home my Last and my centre to find. 6. And fatigued should you be with your journey and quest, On an easy chair thus -- I advise you to rest. E. S. 11. Yesterday all dull and lifeless, -- but a thing of life to-day, Flaunting in the golden sunlight, basking in its cheerful ray; Oh ! wond'rous change of Nature, when its prison doors are burst, And my Second springs triumphant from the bondage of my first. 1. An easy road to learning -- a little place of rest. 2. An oft repeated question, by friend to friend addressed. 3. Many a noble-hearted champion for this has fought and died. 4. Spread her white sails to the breezes upon the flowing tide. 6. I ring across the frozen pool, or cleave the briny sea. 6. I'm everywhere around you, and your life de pends on me. 7. I'm with you at your table, before you with your book, And you see me in your garden, whene'er you chance to look. 8. It cannot help its votaries, nor bear them when they pray. 9. Sensationa...« less