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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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Palindromic Enigma

First find out a word that doth silence proclaim, }
And that backwards and forwards is always the same; } Mum.

Then next you must find a feminine name, }
That backwards and forwards is always the same; } Anna.

An act or a writing on parchment whose name }
Both backwards and forwards is always the same; } Deed.

A fruit that is rare whose botanical name }
Read backwards and forwards is always the same; } Anana.

A note used in music which time doth proclaim, }
And backwards and forwards is always the same; } Minim.

Their initials connected a title will frame }
That is justly the due of the fair married dame, } Madam.
Which backwards and forwards is always the same. }

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