----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Kronengold" <mneme at io.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:19 PM Subject: Re: A Riddle > Four came before me. > Two commanded me. > One was within me. > A carriage > What I killed for enslaved me. > Whom I tried to kill stole it from me. > Whom I tried to steal it from, I served, > And in the end, I saved him. > Who am I? > Gotta think on this one > I drank from a king. > Yet kings have striven to drink from me? > What am I? The Holy Grail > > Hermes's silver snake, > I speed but do not slither, > Burrow but do not dig. > What am I? An arrow? I don't think that's correct. . . > > Famed am I. > Yet my final, fabled fate > is filetting flour. ummmmm, one more line please? Jeff