Or fateful war, holds nothing worse!
What is this word, with baleful charm,
To change the sweetest name we know
To one surcharged with subtile harm?—
And what the strange, new name of woe?
And if you guess this riddle well,
And speak this word in answer true,
How may it lift—I pray you tell—
The tuneful soul to see and do?
[A] The answer will be given in "Letter-Box" of January number.