Preserve it in their bosom stored, Thence implements of every size, The largest and the longest kind A sort most needed by the blind, The full-charged leaf, which next ensues, The smaller sort, which matrons use, Not quite so blind as they. The third, the fourth, the fifth supply But still with regular decrease, Oh! what a fund of genius, pent VOL. III. This volume's method and intent, It leaves no reader at a loss Search Bodley's many thousands o'er! No!-Rival none in either host Or that contents could justly boast AN ENIGMA. A NEEDLE small, as small can be, Nor is my purchase dear; For little, and almost for nought, Yet though but little use we boast, The labour is not light, Nor few artificers it asks, All skilful in their several tasks, One fuses metal o'er the fire, A second draws it into wire, The shears another plies, Who clips in lengths the brazen thread A fifth prepares, exact and round, The knob, with which it must be crowned; His follower makes it fast; And with his mallet and his file To shape the point, employs a while The seventh, and the last. Now, therefore, Oedipus! declare Its purpose with so much ado, At last produces!-Tell me true, And take me for your pains! SPARROWS Self-domesticated in Trinity College, Cambridge.. NONE ever shared the social feast, Or as an inmate, or a guest, Beneath the celebrated dome, Their nests they weave in hope of crumbs, None more attentive to the call. And who can grudge so small a grace FAMILIARITY DANGEROUS. As in her ancient mistress' lap, They gave each other many a tap, But strife ensues. Puss waxes warm, And with protruded claws Ploughs all the length of Lydia's arm, At once, resentful of the deed, She shakes her to the ground With many a threat, that she shall bleed But Lydia, bid thy fury rest! For she that will with kittens jest INVITATION TO THE REDBREAST. SWEET bird, whom the winter constrains-ins And seldom another it can |