RIDDLES. 4]

I am in France, in Spain, in England too ;
Next moment, I’m in China or Peru.

Yet legs to walk with, nature did deny,

Nor have I fins to swim, nor wings to fly.

I sympathise with all, in joy or pain ;

Laugh with the merry, with the sad complain:
By nature taught such an obliging way,

That if you converse with me all the day, }

I never once dissent from what you say,
Where’er I am, to understand am plain,

Yet all the while invisible remain ;

Though thousands do, I ne’er shall die of age,
Tull the last day concludes this mortal stage.

 

RIDDLE LXXXV.
FORMD half beneath and half above the earth,

We sisters owe to art our second birth ;
The smith’s and carpenter’s adopted daughters,
Made on the earth, to travel o’er the waters.
Swifter we move, the straighter we are bound ;
Yet neither touch the sea nor air, nor ground.
We serve the poor for use, the rich for whim,
Sink when it rains, and when it freezes swim.