It nurtures a deep and honest love, 'Tis a rich, rough gem, deny it who can,- The Briton may traverse the pole or the zone, For he calls such a vast domain his own, 'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, Eliza Cook. THE ANGEL'S WHISPER. (A superstition of great beauty prevails in Ireland, that when a child smiles in its sleep it is "talking to angels.") A BABY was sleeping, Its mother was weeping, For her husband was far on the wild raging sea, Round the fisherman's dwelling; And she cried "Dermot darling; oh! come back to me." Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered, And smiled in her face as she bended her knee: "Oh! bless'd be that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning, For I know that the angels are whispering to thee. "And while they are keeping Oh! pray to them softly, my baby, with me, They'd watch o'er thy father, For I know that the angels are whispering to thee." The dawn of the morning And the wife wept with joy her babe's father to see; Her child with a blessing, Said, "I knew that the angels were whispering to thee." THE MOSS ROSE. THE Angel of the flowers one day He gently whispered to the rose : CHARADES. 1. SAVE your chickens from my first, 2. My first on Dick's skull Is develop'd so full, That 'twould pose Drs. Spurzheim and Gall, And my second all swear That Dick's genius is rare, Yet he is but my whole after all. Lover. 3. In my first we look at the water, 4. My first with the lion and tiger is class'd, My whole when rude winter's dominion is pass'd, 5. My first on Scotia's misty hills, My whole preserves the dairy's store, And yields the wealth of summer meads 6. My foremost of mice, And my hindmost of lice, Is the principal terror and dread, My whole lies a realm of the dead. 7. What tree is the most universally agreeable? 10. Ye saw my first with eye of light And clap his little hands and laugh, How chang'd! In yonder cloistered pile And folds the sackcloth round his loins, My second o'er his brow; Ah, holy brother! with my whole Thy happiness departed, Scorn'd love and disappointed hope Have left thee broken-hearted. 11. What proper name in Scripture describes the names of the combatants in a duel together with the issue of the meeting? 12. My first denotes a company, my second shuns a company, my third calls a company; and my whole puzzles a company. 13. Why ought the children of a thief to be burnt? 14. Why is the letter M like good taste in playing on the piano? 15. Why is the letter F like a scandal-monger? 16. Why is Tartary like white paint? 17. Why does the letter H express all the difference between a Puseyite and an anti-Puseyite? 18. Why is Joseph and Anna like the crust and meat in a venison pasty? 19. Why is a portrait painter like a red-hot poker in cold. water? 20. Why is the letter C like frosty weather? 21. Why is the letter M like pain? 22. Why is the letter B like talking to a deaf person? 23. Why is Annie's wedding like the letter G ? 24. Why is a lady's glove-box like a cave in the wood? 25. Why is a man who is at once silly and odd like a steel breastplate? 26. Why are you studying these riddles like a very rainy day? 27. Why is the letter A like cowardice ? 28. Why is the letter O like a man who insists upon drinking two gills of ale? 29. How does the letter M make Sarah little ? 30. If a man offered to cut grass what tribe of Indians would he name? 31. 'Twas whisper'd in heaven, it was mutter'd in hell, On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, In the whisper of conscience its voice will be found, Yet in shade let it rest like a delicate flower, 32. From what place in England does all the butter come that is carried to London market? 33. What is that which goes from London to York without moving? 31. Why is a shrimp like a Member of Parliament ? 35. Why is a dog with a broken leg like a boy at arithmetic? 36. If all the vowels could speak why would O only be heard? 37. What coloured letters do we eat? 38. In what colour should you keep a secret? 39. Why is hatred like a translation? 40. My first is a thing many struggle to gain, Yet when torn from its owners they seldom feel pain. 41. A message for haste and importance so named, My second is a hill in Scripture much famed, 'Tis the life of all life, and soul of all soul, 42. Why is a trumpet, although the giver of courage to others, a great coward? C |