Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ENIGMA: 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL


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ENIGMA: 4, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a useful whole I'm the most useful part
Last Line: I am your body, but not your soul!
Subject(s): Tree Trunks


OF a useful whole I'm the most useful part;
I've a good circulation, for I've a heart;
I have two or three garments or outer clothes;
I am closely allied to a lip and nose;
Rags, and parchments, and jewels rare;
Rubbish and treasures within me I bear;
The tiniest leaf I produce I can nip
With a dexterous finger and thumb at my tip;
Though I'm often as tall as a spire to view,
If you travel far I accompany you;
I am the Indian's light canoe:
To puzzle you more, I'm an aqueduct too;
I'm part of a garment of olden time,
And part of a beast of a southern clime;
And finally, now, to crown the whole,
I am your body, but not your soul!





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