Weekend Stubble

It's not just for Pakistani textbooks anymore: over in TLS, Adele Davidson has discovered vertical acrostic messages hidden within the poetry of George Herbert:

"Divinity" contains an acrostic including the letters JWCABAL, the word “cabal” suggesting the Jewish cabal, or secret religious wisdom.... "The Rose", averring “repentance is a purge”, mentions the flower’s properties as a purgative: the acrostic includes the word PISS.... “Faith”, with the acrostic TAIIWTIATAWFNWATIIWVFW, contains the phrase "I wait, wait, wait, wait."

"His poem 'Misery'", she adds, "concludes, "HAA HAA."