An epidemic of anagrams broke out in a public school, and eight of the prefects, having turned their Christian names into other words, fashioned from them this sentence, which contains them all in order.
“I, thy Tom, am sober and lie or live in dew, but her brain sinned.”
Can you decipher them?
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.