Original double acrostics Author:A. B. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1 Facts are against you, and you speak in vain. 2 What evening pleasure can more entertain. 3 Dread sounds are heard by night from yonder steeple, 4 ... more »Whose sounds by day oft shock some timid people. Read the eyes; Though tongue denies. 1 Jaws in motion 2 Makes eye-lotion, 3 Sickening potion. An indistinct assemblage half will speak, Or holy office many daily seek. My next a portion fixed, as rentals show : Key of the East! its blood-stained shores all know. 1 Port of Arabia, of commercial fame; Our breakfast-table could reveal its name, 2 Something perplexing and, when new, amusing; Employment 'mid the idle oft diffusing. 3 Without my aid the trains would fail to run. One in a happy state when work is done. 4 Without my first, to walk you'd be unable; It makes a nice addition to your table. " The holy city lifted high her towers ; And higher yet the glorious temple reared Her pile." " Lo ! the toilsome voyage past, Heaven's favoured hills appear at last! Object of our holy vow, We tread the Tyrian valleys now." 1 " A holy prophetess new risen up, Is come with a great power to raise the siege." ii " Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out, Mumbling of wicked charms ; conjuring the moon To stand his auspicious mistress." 3 " The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence." 4 " Lo! from that accursed venom springs The tree of death! " 5 " Beautiful, sublime, and glorious. Mild, majestic, foaming free, Over tune itself victorious." 6 " With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; Whose tender locks do tremble every one, At every little breath that under heaven is blown." 7 " The pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembl...« less