Living
Riddle 15
From At the Sign of the Sphinx (Second Series)
Living
I had two gardeners who to work were loath,
But straightway to my first I sent them both.
Such lazy fellows! Yet I must admit
A lazier one could be,--my second ’s it.
The ancients’ art my whole doth represent,
A perfect figure softly curved and bent.
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Codex Note
Answer: DIGIT
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 15.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/132/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 15.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/132/.
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