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    At the Sign of the Sphinx. Second series
    At the Sign of the Sphinx. Second series
    At the Sign of the Sphinx. Second series
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    At the Sign of the Sphinx. Second series

    By Carolyn Wells

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    A collection of fascinating and mind-boggling literary charades by American writer and poet Carolyn Wells. At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896) was her first published work. Her next works were The Jingle Book, The Story of Betty (1899), followed by a book of verse entitled Idle Idyls (1900). After 1900, Wells wrote a number of novels and collections of poetry. She focused on poetry, humor, and children's books during the first ten years of her career.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2021
    ISBN4064066201913
    At the Sign of the Sphinx. Second series
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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

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066201913

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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

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