We three are one
For ear or tongue
Yet not for eye nor hand
Of our good three
But one lacks three
As this riddle lacks we
1 Answer
These are
the words
to
,two
andtoo
.
We three are one
For ear or tongue
Yet not for eye nor hand
They sound the same, but are written differently.
Of our good three
But one lacks three
Only one of the words has fewer than three letters, the others have exactly three.
As this riddle lacks we
None of these words appear in the riddle.
Note that
There are other possibilities, eg.
so
,sew
andsow
, but given the references to one and three,two
seems the most natural answer.