18 ‘ HOME AMUSEMENTS.

I did appear, and still upon this earth

Am daily seen, and every day have birth.
With Adam I in Paradise was seen,

When the vile serpent tempted Eve to sin;
And, since the fall, I with the humen race
Partake their shame and manifest disgrace.

In the dark caverns of old ocean drear

Lever was, and ever shall appear.

In every battle firmly I have stood,

When plains seem lav’d, whole oceans dy’d with blood.
But, hold—no more ! It now remains with you
To find me out and bring me forth to view.

 

RIDDLE XXXII.
W HAT is that which, while it lives, constantly changes
its habit, that is buried before it is dead, and
whose tomb is valued wherever it is found ?

 

RIDDLE XXXIV.
EFORE my birth I have a name,

But soon as born I lose the same ;
And when I’m laid within the tomb,
I do my father’s name assume :