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Our friend A. B. T., whose hieroglyphical puzzle we solved last week, has just sent us another. His note is as follows —
¶ Þ ! ☜ || ⊥ ☞ Þ . ’
? ☜ ¡ § || ¶ Þ ( § ¶ ⊥ , ] § ☜ ¡ § ! ¶ ⊥ § ☞ ⊥ ,
☜ ( ⊥ ( § ‡ ¶ ? || § † § Þ § ☞ ⊥ ‡ — ? ) ☜ — ;
¡ § ! — ¿ ☜ ⊥ ☞ ¿ [ Þ ¶ ¿ Þ ! § ¶ ⊥ § ☞ ⊥ ,
§ ¡ § ! — ⊥ ! ☞ ‡ ? § ] ☞ ? ? † § || ⊥ ! ☜
A. B. T.
Mr. Alexander — I send you one more, and if you decypher it in your next, I must call you invincible.
These characters to be sure have an ugly look about them — but we assure A. B. T. that the ugliness of the letters has nothing to with the difficulty of solution. The translation is thus —
ACROSTIC.
Love's a cheat, we overrate it,
Oh the false, deceitful joy;
Very nothing can create it —
Every trifle will destroy.
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Notes:
This notice was first attributed to Poe by Clarence S. Brigham in Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to Alexander's Weekly Messenger, 1943, p. 27.
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