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[Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "Yet Another Poser," from Alexander's Weekly Messenger, January 29, 1840, p. 2, col. 4.]
 
 
YET ANOTHER POSER.

    Our friend A. B. T., whose hieroglyphical puzzle we solved last week, has just sent us another. His note is as follows--

    Mr. Alexander--I send you one more, and if you decypher it in your next, I must call you invincible.

Cyper with typographical characters
 
     These characters to be sure have an ugly look about them--but we assure A. B. T. that the ugliness of the letters has nothing to with the difficulty of solution. The translation is thus--
 
ACROSTIC.
 
Love's a cheat, we overrate it,.
Oh the false, deceitful joy;      .
Very nothing can create it--    .
Every trifle will destroy.         .

[This notice was first attributed to Poe by Clarence S. Brigham in Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to Alexander's Weekly Messenger, 1943, p. 27.]
 

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