Living
Riddle 31
From At the Sign of the Sphinx (Second Series)
Living
There was a bachelor in days of old,
Who wished to get himself a wife, we ’re told.
And so desirous of a wife was he,
He started off to London, one, two, three.
He must have found one to delight his soul,
Because soon after they returned my whole.
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Codex Note
Answer: TOGETHER
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 31.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/148/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 31.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/148/.
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