2. Covered, the ancient weapons hang Above the castle-door.

3. I will not change one single word From what I said at first.

4. But little farther can he go, or else
His heart will burst.

5. Though welcomed here at Christmas-time,
In the East I've always been.
6. What goes before the highest rank,
As many oft have seen.

7. Near where the ruined palace of the
Roman emperor stands.

8. Behold it breaking gradually
Upon the distant lands.

9. See how it rises day by day,
Beneath its builder's skill,
Until at last complete it stands
In valley or on hill,

50.

'Go where glory waits thee!'
'For the town's end to beg during life.'

1. A high imperial family, whose sway
Parts of three-quarters of the world obey.

2. My Second knows, my First learns, how to use it;

'Tis good for health, if you do not abuse it. 3. This garb, whose hue my First's young fancy catches,

My Second wears too oft in shreds and patches. 4. Oh dear! that braying trumpet, rattling drum! Must I get up? Yes, sergeant !-yes, I come.

5. Strive as we may, time and the hour will show That few will be above, many below.

6. A sickening drug, to which we have recourse To ease a hard cough's irritating force.

7. Done by earth, fortune's wheel, and weathercocks,

Some, before theirs comes, have to bear hard knocks.

51.

My First is a writer who, every year, gives an account of the changes in my Second.

1. This word applies to anything liquid. 2. A ceremonious form.

3. A bar to prevent admittance.

4. An animal of the northern regions. 5. A wicked stepmother.

6. Part of a whip.

7. This is no falsehood.

52.

My First has come —
Woe to my Second!

1. What a mess!
2. Can't you guess?
3. Noble he.

4. Don't bully me.
5. A pithy tree.
6. A bridge, a strait.
7. A very smooth pate.
8. A future bird.

9. This jingle's absurd.

53.

My First, though larger than my Next,
Is much the smallest reckoned;
But still my First, with care, you'll find,
May help to make my Second;
But stranger now it does appear,
If you will only try,

By laying down my First you can
Sometimes my Second buy.

1. The cunning weasel goes like me.
2. My mocking next you oft may hear.
3. Wild in Africa my third goes free.
4. All-powerful each longs to be.

5. In the homestead of farmer and of peer.

54.

'Of faded form, and haughtiest lineaments,
With all her autumn tresses falsely brown.'
'An open-hearted maiden, true and pure.'
1. Full-flowered, and visible in every steep,
Along the copses runs in veins of gold."

Thus in his father's sight the boy grew up, And now, when he had reached his eighteenth year,

He was his comfort, and his daily hope.'

'His a brother's love, that hung With wings of brooding shelter o'er her

peace,

Might have been other, save for Leolins.'

'Its surface wears

A deep cold settled aspect nought can shake, All coiled in itself and round, as sleeps the snake.'

5.

'He reads much;

He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men.'

6. Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Towards the reef of Norman's woe.'

7. 'When thou singest, hearts beat low,
Admiration great and free,
Lingers on thy melody.'

55.

MAY 1866.

In our income we're pleased to hear Gladstone declare

That we've got what Voltaire called, 'Chose si necessaire':

Very good! But if that's the case, why not relax, Mr. Chancellor, more of our property tax?

1.

Prey to sharpers, though not green; sometimes black, and sometimes white;

Farmers' friends; exchanged and captured very oft in mimic fight.

2.

Paradox, of flight incapable, yet swifter than a horse;

Colonials course him first, and find him tough at second course.

3.

A churchman staunch. No preacher, yet can show,

You, and the preacher too, the way to go.

4.

'Hang a man and a brother?' says Exeter Hall, 'Poor fellow, he can't change his skin;

'He just cleared off old scores with the planters, that's all,

And you surely don't call that a sin ?'

5.

'Nothing can come of nothing;' though you sought

This word, and found it, it would still be

No word, and yet (upon my word, 'tis true)
Each of these letters must resemble you.

7.

Though as like one another as brother to brother, It's quite possible each of them may be a mother.

56.

A maiden, who was doomed to die,
If none for her would fight;
The warrior, who, to clear her fame,
O'erthrew the perjured knight.

1. Now we place them in the grave,
So end e'en the wise and brave.

2. Moved by all the winds that blow,
Ever round and round I go.

3. I dwell in tent with wife and horse,
And through the deserts shape my course.

4. Follow me, and people say

You will never lose your way.