186. AN ENIGMA
In any coward’s company you find
That I have place.
Cut off my head, and from your mind
All wrong erase.
187. A DOUBLE ACROSTIC
(From Punch, 1875)
My first elect among the few,
Chooses my second to expose his view.
1. Of various colours, changed at will,
1. I sit or stand for good or ill.
2. I rule alone from noon till night,
2. And when I am not am is right.