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Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet, librarian, and mystery writer. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, Wells began her career as a children’s author with such works as At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), The Jingle Book (1899), and The Story of Betty (1899). After reading a mystery novel by Anna Katharine Green, Wells began focusing her efforts on the genre and found success with her popular Detective Fleming Stone stories. The Clue (1909), her most critically acclaimed work, cemented her reputation as a leading mystery writer of the early twentieth century. In 1918, Wells married Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing fortune, and remained throughout her life an avid collector of rare and important poetry volumes.
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At the Sign of the Sphinx. Second series - Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells
At the Sign of the Sphinx. Second series
EAN 8596547035879
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ANSWERS
AT THE SIGN OF THE SPHINX ——— ANSWERS TO SECOND SERIES
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THE time has come. The waiting populace
Breathlessly watch him as he slowly mounts
The scaffold. Though his timid, trembling steps
Betoken fear, with calm and steady gaze
He sees my whole above his head. So bright!
So glittering! On that his eyes are fixed.
Garbed all in white, a rope about his waist,
My first upon his feet; silent, although
He suffers agonies untold. But hark!
He calls for drink. By some kind hand is passed
To him a brimming tumbler, and within
He sees my last and he is glad. He drinks,
Then once again turns to my whole. Brave man!
He fears not death, but murmurs to himself:
"This only I desire, that when I die
Men say I did my work and did it well."
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THE scene was merry, bright and gay
As I came to my first one day.
Beside my last I saw a lass
Dispense refreshment in a glass.
She was my first. My last,
said I,
I ’ll take a drink, for I am dry.
Smiling, as she the goblet passed,
She said, Here you my first my last.
My whole,
said I, "ere I depart,
I ’ll say that there is in my heart
(Just here the word must be reversed—)
A wish for your my last my first."
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MY first is now before us, my second is here too;
My whole is now here also,—and yet that