62 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

We both partake one common lot,
Neglected first, and then forgot.

 

RIDDLE CXXIX.

MY riddle is bright: though I boast of no rays,
I still have a power to enlighten:
In one instant you'll find me extinguish a blaze,
Which in the next moment I brighten.

Though I live quite alone, yet I’m called a pair;
Then how can I only be one?

Develop this myst’ry, ye quicksighted fair,
For now with description I’ve done.

 

RIDDLE CXXX.

AM coeval with man, and was burdened with a

numerous family, most of them rude and unpo-
lished, except two fair daughters, who were the delight
of the world. But their barbarous cousins, envious of
their perfections, reduced them nearly to their own
level; and since that time, the fairest of my descend-
ants bear but an imperfect resemblance to their graces.