Where old devotion lingers beside the granite

cross,

And pilgrims seek the healing well from over moor and moss.'

'Poor misled men! your states are yet worth pity If you would hear, and change your savage minds,

Leave to be mad; forsake your purposes

Of treason, rapine, horror, fire, and murders.'

1.

'Tis a short word, but when by Hastings said, It made that hero shorter-by a head.

2.

Though angry we may do it, grumbling pay it; Dogmatically used, the pack obey it.

3.

Unhappy country! ever doomed to be
The prey of faction, or of tyranny.

4.

I told Eliza (quite as forward she
As other misses in geography),

This light was meant to represent an island Washed by a tideless sea. She gave a smile, and Answered, with eyes that opened rather wide'No sea can be kept in without it's tied.'

5.

'She walked the waters like a thing of life,' Was oft engaged, but never was a wife.

6.

'England expects each man to do his duty,'

Old Bronté said, before the French he banged; What England now expects is, coûte que

coûte, he,

This man will do his duty, and be hanged.

7.

Tail abbreviations, ships, or goodly merchandise containing;

Foes to agriculture-prisoners felonious restraining.

347.

Fill my Second with my First;
Fill it full-it will not burst.

1. How do you like it, white or brown?
Lads, do not idle through the town.
2. You'll not engraft that in my mind;
What! you're not yet out, I find.

3. That it's used in beer I don't believe, But as a bitter lie receive.

4. Play? No-the harp has not a string; My nerves are weak, I'm not the thing. 5. This bishop who did Harold harass, Looks such a guy upon the arras !

6. This gift of food, though rude and coarse, Is quite enough for man and horse.

348.

We pass it o'er without the slightest heed; How much we find whene'er we talk or read 1. It will assist a nation to maintain,

Or prove a most vexatious source of pain. 2. In truth, I have a most delicious smell! I reigned some years, but did not prosper well. 3. Of him but little save the name is known

She leaves the world to live almost alone.

4. They're altogether lost-then safe is he;
They're broken-great will the disaster be.
5. He comes-he comes! it is a glorious sight!
To drown our senses in serene delight.
6. This we should shun, all moralists will say,
And yet they tell us 'tis the safest way.
7. The centre of the world, a famous city;
A traitor who may yet deserve our pity.
8. Long journeys make one weary feel;
A part of every carriage-wheel.

349.

'He sits upon a throne of trophied skulls,
Hideous and huge; a shield is on his arm;
And with his black right hand he lifts, as though
In wrath, the menacing spear.'

'A wreath of flowers Circled her hair, and from their odorous leaves Arose a lambent flame; not fitfully,

Nor with faint flash or spark of earthly flowers.'

1. God of the waters! at whose will the streams Flow in their wonted channel, and diffuse Their plenty round, the blood and life of earth.' 2. Her voice, untuneful grown,

Wears all day a fainter tone.'

3. 'How proud she stood, when in full harem nam'd

The Priestess of the Faith!'

4. 'I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone; I'll play the housewife for this once.'

5. 'I drink the air before me, and return Or ere your pulse twice beat.'

6. 'Lively his eyes, and quick, And reaching over them,

The large broad eyebrows curl'd.'

7. 'You're not well: remain here in the cave; We'll come to you after hunting.'

8. 'And he sat him down in a lonely place, And chanted a melody loud and sweet.'

9 'Sir, you have wrestled well, and overthrown More than your enemies.'

10. Gold fenced his arms and legs; upon his helm A sculptured snake portends the arrowy

tongue.'

11. 'The roads should blossom, the roads should bloom,

So fair a bride shall leave her home.'

350.

My First in ancient times was needful reckoned, Before my splendid Last could be begun; We moderns change all this, and do my Second Long, long before my First can have been won. 1. He ought to be clever, and fond of his master Whose virtues he never will value too high. 2. He's a scoundrel; but yet, for preventing disaster,

Into treasons and plots we employ him to spy.

3. A Mediterranean harbour and fort,

Whence a great naval hero came off one eye short.

4. These lozenges used to be famous of old, For clearing your throat, if you wished to speak out.

T

5. What! a beast with a pocket! pray, what does it hold ?

Why, it's full of live creatures all kicking about.

6. The high-coloured creature can do this in gold, If we trust to the truth of poetical lay.

7. He used to say Nay, and be boasting and bold; But we caught him, and then we found nothing but Yea.

351. 1866.

A GOVERNMENT OFFICE, AND THE STATESMAN WHO PRESIDED OVER IT.

1. The setting sun sinks in the west,

And darker shades creep o'er the ground;
It seems as if a tranquil rest

Had come on everything around.

2. In Roman capitals I stand,

Fair-fat; I'm sure you know the end. 3. The famous quarry that supplies

Those massive blocks, as white as snow,
Which, 'neath the sculptor's clever hand,
Into new forms and figures grow.

4. Summit of every man, then keep me up,
And never let me fall upon the ground;
And if, perchance, in water you should get,
Still keep me up, and you will ne'er be
drowned.

5. You may display too much, so people say;
A little of it's good in every way.
6. Send me circling through the air,
Take your aim with every care,
If you chance to make me ring,
You could not do a better thing.