<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117145" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Riddle 4</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MY First is singular at best:<br>More plural is my Second:<br>My Third is far the pluralest -<br>So plural-plural, I protest<br>It scarcely can be reckoned!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My First is followed by a bird:<br>My Second by believers<br>In magic art: my simple Third<br>Follows, too often, hopes absurd<br>And plausible deceivers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My First to get at wisdom tries -<br>A failure melancholy!<br>My Second men revered as wise:<br>My Third from heights of wisdom flies<br>To depths of frantic folly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My First is ageing day by day:<br>My Second's age is ended:<br>My Third enjoys an age, they say,<br>That never seems to fade away,<br>Through centuries extended.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Whole? I need a poet's pen<br>To paint her myriad phases:<br>The monarch, and the slave, of men -<br>A mountain-summit, and a den<br>Of dark and deadly mazes -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A flashing light - a fleeting shade -<br>Beginning, end, and middle<br>Of all that human art hath made<br>Or wit devised! Go, seek HER aid,<br>If you would read my riddle!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lewis+Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a> from <i>Four Riddles</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117145" data-title="Riddle 4 de Lewis Carroll" data-description="MY First is singular at best:/More plural is my Second:/My Third is far the pluralest -/So plural-plural, I protest/It scarcely can be reckoned!/My First is followed by a bird:/My Second by believers/In magic art: my simple Third/Follows, too ofte..."></div> </div> </div>

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