Living
Riddle 116
From At the Sign of the Sphinx (Second Series)
Living
A Brave man looked forth and a figure he saw;
’T was bound to my first--he surveyed it with awe.
And as it was fast disappearing from sight,
He began to my second with furious might.
An often-fought foe, very hard to control,
In the Scriptures we read of the fall of my whole.
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Codex Note
Answer: SPARROW
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MLA
Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 116.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/233/.
Chicago
Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 116.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/233/.
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