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A Key to "Dublin Acrostics"Source: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 28, No. 325 (Jul., 1900), pp. 445-446Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499623 .
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Claris Acrostica. 445
Donnelly's "c Irish College at Rome " and (shorter but the fruit of much more laborious research) his account of the " Growth of the Parish System in the Church." Those who wish to procure these first fruits of a fruitful tree may write to the Secretary of the Catholic Truth Society, 2 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin. In sennding these sixteen booklets to a Convent of Mercy in the country, I find that the postage costs fourpence. Those who wish to further a good cause by becoming Members contribute five
shillings a year-or twice as much, or four times as much, if zeal
prompts such generosity. Those who do need such literature for themselves ought to encourage it for the sake of others.
M. R.
A KEY TO " DUBLiN ACROSTICS.1"
F IRST, let us have the solution of No. 120 which we left in
its obscurity last month. The two words are grape and
shell. "0 " takes advantage of the different meanings-" grape
shot and shell," " the juice of the grape," " music's shell." The " lights," are glass, ranch, ainice, pail, elsel. This last is an obsolete
word used by Sir Thomas More for\ vinegar or verj uice. And now I leave No. 115 by 0. W. Three more by the President, and three more by the Judge; and we shall lay aside the ingenious
little quarto called " Dublin Acrosties."
No. 116.
I.
When autumn nights grow chill,
And storms the upland sweep,
On a bleak and lonely hill
I lay me down to sleep:
But I laugh at the surging wind,
As it rocks me to and fro,
Safe iu my couch reclined,
Though its coverlet be snow.
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446 The Irtsh Monthly.
That stormy time is past,
With its blinding mist and rain:
Hushed is that wintrv blast,
I wake me up again:
My1v v,eil I fling aside,
I smooth my tangled hair,
MIy breast I open wide
To woo the genial air:
I bask in the friendly beams,
I lap the balmy dew,
AInd a joyous youDg life streams
Mly quickened pulses through.
II.
Far on the stormy Indian main
His anxious trade the merchant plies:
O'er trampled heaps of bleeding slain,
With ruthless stride the invader flies:
The reckless votaries of spoil
Their myriad schemes of plunder weave
Behold them all, with varied toil,
Straining my second to achieve!
III.
The strangest is yet untold
Strangest and yet most true
Though shut up to keep in the old,
I open to give out the new!
By statesmen to -day entertained,
I am shouldered by tramps on the morrow:
Annd the nation by me is maintained,
Though it deems me its weightiest sorrow:
1. 0 sa-e me from his cruel bite!
2. A kinsman visited by night.
3. The doom of many a luckless wight.
C. W.
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