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“Abbey Amor”

A poem by Susan Thorpe:

Bells tolled,
Abbot spoke.
Wooed Abbess.
Abbey woke!

The letters in each word appear in either alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order.

(Susan Thorpe, “Alphomes,” Word Ways 28:3 [August 1995], 136-139.)

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