ORIGINAL DOUBLE ACROSTICS BY L. M. H. PUBLISHED IN AID OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF "The heart is hard in nature that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own." COWPER. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., NORWICH: FLETCHER AND SON. "The knight desired the bachelor, if he were a poet, to do him the favour to compose for him some verses by way of a farewell to his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, and that he would place a letter of her name at the beginning of each verse, in such manner that at the end of the verses, the first letters taken together might form Dulcinea del Toboso. "Though I am not,' answered the bachelor, 'one of the famous poets of Spain, who are said to be but three and a half, yet will I not fail to compose such a copy of verses.'"-Don Quixote. I. DOUBLE ACROSTICS. 1. A fairy spirit, in a summer's dream; A fairy fabric also here is seen: Who venture in, its host to visit, find, Like Dante's ghosts, they "leave all hope behind." "Then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." B |
