CHARADES AND ENIGMAS.

CHARADES AND ENIGMAS.*

I.

THE First is for love and thee, Mary,—
The First is for love and thee;

And so firmly hold

Those links of gold,

That the Second it never shall be-Mary!

The Second is ever free, Mary,—

Free as the foaming brine;

As the fires that fly

From the poet's eye,

Or the laugh that speaks in thine-Mary!

Though the First be a wayward thing, Mary,

Though a wayward thing it be,

When thought hath power

In the midnight hour,

Be sure it is ever with thee-Mary!

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ENIGMA.

THROUGH thy short and shadowy span
I am with thee, Child of Man ;
With thee still, from first to last,

In pain and pleasure, feast and fast,
At thy cradle and thy death,

Thine earliest wail, and dying breath.
Seek not thou to shun or save,

On the earth, or in the grave;

The worm and I, the worm and I,
In the grave together lie.

NOVEMBER, 1821.

III.

SIR HILARY charged at Agincourt;
Sooth, 'twas an awful day!

And though in that old age of sport
The rufflers of the camp and court
Had little time to pray,

'Tis said Sir Hilary muttered there
Two syllables by way of prayer:

My First to all the brave and proud
Who see to-morrow's sun:

My Next, with her cold and quiet cloud,
To those who find their dewy shroud
Before to-day's be done :

And both together to all blue eyes,
That weep when a warrior nobly dies.