Merry's Book of Puzzles

Chapter 56: THE GOOD OLD PLOW.

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A three-part compilation of riddles, charades, rebuses, pictorial puzzles and conundrums presented for children and young readers. Arranged as short challenges and illustrated teasers, the pieces mix wordplay, logic problems, simple arithmetic puzzles and playful questions that invite group play or solitary amusement. Brief introductions and occasional light commentary frame the items, which range from single-line riddles to multi-step brainteasers, all intended to entertain while sharpening observation, verbal wit and reasoning skills.

THE GOOD OLD PLOW.

Let them laud the notes that in music float

Through the bright and glittering hall,

While the amorous whirl of the hair’s bright curl

Round the shoulders of beauty fall;

But dearest to me is the song of the tree,

And the rich and the blossoming bough—

Oh! these are the sweets which the rustic greets,

As he follows the good old plow.

All honor be, then, to those gray old men,

When at last they are bowed with toil;

Their warfare then o’er, they battle no more,

For they’ve conquered the stubborn soil;

And the chaplet he wears is his silver hairs,

And ne’er shall the victor’s brow

With a laurel crown in his grave go down,

Like the sons of the good old plow.