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Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics". No. 60Source: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 27, No. 315 (Sep., 1899), p. 494Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499492 .

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OLAVIS ACROSTICA.

A KEY TO " DUBLIN AcROSTIcS."

No. 60.

rp HE peculiar es?igencies of the month of August do not 1 allow rrbme wait4cr the anrweisof my c6rrespondents in

this department. J. W. A., indeed, has sent me his answer which is, "I give it up "-namely, No. 55, (if which I gave warning that it would be found pretty difficult. How ingenioisly "0.O " poetizes about the words "cledn swreep," especially towards the end where there is question of the sweeping. changes that

youthful reformers advocate. The first light is canvass, which has cost M.P.'s thanyt a -thousand pounds. The second is the exclamation. law- IWhat aor beginning and ending with e is indicated by this"line ?

"That rouge the major lies in hiding here."

An Enthymeme, an abridged syllogism in which the major premise is suppressed& _The fourth light is evidently Captain Absolute, though it is hardly fair to begin M is Lydia Languish with a small 1. Finally a neap tide is darkly described as

"A,fallen fortune sure once more to rise.-"

For various reasons we here take a little leap and alighted next upon No. 60.

What varied fortunes they may share

Who felt the same fond mother's care!

Bowv >one :to distant- marts may roam,

And one all idly lag at home !

How one may taste the rich repast,

The while anoither's left to fast!.

414 n-- ag4jn, aecuse his fate

In bitter words, disconsolate! The legenad of my first may tell,

A theme that suits my second well;

Thatbaf -pathetic comictale Beyond all others hits the _naSl.

I've seen, when it was told anew,

My second touched and tickld too.

1. Measures, not men! be stil the patriots cry. 2. Do you kitfnish-th'is, and- I'm-your debtor.

3. The ro,rd tha4l4sPf j4djPng sQone ankI. 4. And as to me, obey me-you had better.

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