The Columbain Prize Charades
by Herbert Ingalls (9780217756006)

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: My First a poet was. His verse unsealed The fount of tears; mirth came at his command. When Samuel Johnson called on Chesterfield, The Doctor held my Second in his hand: Not parchment nor papyrus may reveal My Whole, although it is a sort of seal. Within my First of May the winter lingers; In winter is my Second under fire: My Whole, caressed of woman's gentle fingers, Not many men especially admire. My First is French in Eastern Tennessee; The beast of burden bears my Second there: Upon my Whole young Lincoln floated free, With certain " truck" committed to his care. Across my First and other dismal things The fiends of Milton make their dreadful way; Upon the brow of Cain my Second clings: My Whole, beneath a fratricidal king's Control, became the subject of decay. ' Tvvas my First, and his own, that the bobolink carolled; My Second was not so much: My Whole a column is, in " Childe Harold";? But none of us would be such. My First a term is which describes A person who is most precise; My Second's lovely bloom imbibes The dews and sun of paradise: My Whole, a doctor of devout simplicity, Another has portrayed with great felicity.My First in old England went round with a goose Which my Second was fitting for holiday use;? Of wood that was fitted no doubt there was good stock: My Whole is a serving-boy mentioned in " Woodstock." My First is in the youth's reply " When duty whispers low, Thou must;' My Second deepens in the eye When mortal dust returns to dust: My Whole in faithful fellowship Is at the fainting soldier's lip. Among the letters of the English sequence My First has been employed with greatest fre- quence; Columbus in the west my Second sighted;? How ill his labors were at last requited My Whole, a crea...

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