Persuasions #2, 1980                                                                                                                                            Page 5

 

RIDDLE WRITTEN BY JANE AUSTEN

by Babette R. Harper
Mineola, New York

 

When my first is a task to a young girl of spirit,

And my second confines her to finish the piece,

How hard is her fate! but how great is her merit,

If by taking my whole she effect her release!

 

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