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Today’s Poem: A Riddle on the Letter H

Ah, breathe on it softly — it dies in an hour

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Sep 10, 2025
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William Hogarth, A Midnight Modern Conversation, c. 1732 (Wikimedia Commons)

A Riddle on the Letter H

by Catherine Maria Fanshawe

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