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Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics"Source: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 27, No. 311 (May, 1899), p. 251Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499434 .

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CLAYIS ACROSTICA.

A KEY TO " DUBLIN ACROSTICS."

-No. 48.

I guarded once old England's sea-girt shore

I to a monarch's spirit panic bore

To lash a grievance once I served a Dean

No brilliant landscape without me is seen.

.II. Without my aid your beer would cease to flow

In me the British lion hath a foe

I tended infancy with annxious care I sometimes show the-currents of the air.

III. From foreign climes a welcome guest I come.

And make the wildest solitude my home,

I in patrician banquets rule the roast,

And there am sure to be the favourite toast.

. If on your letters you direct to me, You're sure to find a judge or a Q.C.

2 If for a wholesome diet you're inclined, No doubt in me you get one to your mind.

3. Youtlimbs rheumatic, if they aching be,

Are greatly soothed by rubbing them with me.

4. For benefit of passengers and trade,

Let sea-bound vessels be in me surveyed. H.

This I leave to the ingenuity of a few select readers. Even these select few have not all co:me forward to attack No. 47

r.D., J. 0., and J. W. A., are almost the ouly competitors; and even when correct, they feel doubtful. The two words are brieks and mortar. "c Birmingham " is the "' home of industry." Three other lights are "idler," "circuit," and " sailor "-.for which J. C. suggests "scaur," a cliff, as in Scarborough. J. W A. writes: "'Regions rebellious' without the last two letters would suit the second light, but -this seems too absurd to have been intended." Yet it was intended, according to the offloial key of

Mr. Reeves, Q.0., who sets down klepsydra as the fifth light. Was this instrument for marking the flight of time used specially

in the senate-house ? If not, why should it be described as " all

silently marking the stateman's address?"

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