Living
Riddle 85
From At the Sign of the Sphinx (Second Series)
Living
The sparkling wine was bright and red; ’t was tempting, but, alas!
Full well I knew my whole, unseen, was lurking in the glass.
And when, with wily argument, they offered it to me,
I said I would not drink, and what I one, two, three!
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Codex Note
Answer: SEDIMENT
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 85.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/202/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 85.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/202/.
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