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Show Romantic Cipher Some years ago a clever American professor was asked by a young lady for a cipher that could be easily worked out without being too difficult to read, whereupon he penned the following: U 0 a 0. but I 0 U; O 0 no 0, but O 0 me; O let not my 0 a 0 go. But give 0 0 I 0 U so. When the key to this is obtained It lilts like a love song. The secret of it lies in the facts that a naught is a cipher and that it is easy to make this word "sigh for" whenever required. re-quired. It reads phonetically with perfect ease, but the written form is perhaps more readily intelligible: Tou sih for a cipher, but I sigh for you; O sigh for no cipher, but O sigh for me, O let not my sigh for a cipher go. But give sigh for sigh, for I sigh for you so. |