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“QUOD” ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM
My second makes my ending,
My first is its reverse;
My whole bad men is sending
From court to quarters worse.
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My first, though won and never lost,
Reversed is now before ye:
My second turns as red as blood
Upon a field of glory.
My whole is plain, yet you’ll confess
It is a wonder if you guess.
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I get my second when I take my first,
And then my upright character is lost;
My whole gives quarters to a rat reversed,
Or is a refuge for the tempest tost.