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Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics". No. 35Source: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 26, No. 303 (Sep., 1898), p. 489Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499331 .

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CLLAVIS ACROSTICA.

A KEY TO " I)UBLIN ACROSTICS."

No. 35.

For certain reasons we pass over No. 34 for the present. It is very much longer than the following, which Mr. Reeves assigns to Miss Alice O'Brien, Old Church, Limerick.

The secrets to my second told

My first too often doth unfold.

1. Never true.

2. Not always new.

3. Always two.

Do you give it up? Lip and ear, with the " lights," lie, idea, and

pair. With this we may join No. 37 (for No. 36 is very long).

No. 37.

When my first is arrived at, a shout loud and clear

Will peal up from the friends of Will Gladstone the caustic,

And none of the kingdom my second shall fear,

Though its name you may give to this double acrostic;

While my whole jabbers on what he's taught to express,

Like a member reciting his maiden address.

1. I lived through many and many a year.

2. 1 swept the skies with studious eyes,

3. Nor dreamt of what's to weary minds so dear.

W.

This is signed " W "'-namely, Mr. William Woodlock, Q.C., Divisional Magistrate of Dublin-a man of great talents, culture, modesty, benevolence, and piety. Were the Funds below par at that time ? Parrot is the word he cuts in two. The

lights are Old Parr, the French astronomer Arago, and rest. No one would dream of applying the epithet caustic to the great and good man who has lately passed away, except a poet in search of

a rhyme for the word "c acrostic."

VOL. XI. No. 303. 35

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