78 ' HOME AMUSEMENTS.

With black, and blue, and green, myself I paint;
With me an Atheist stands before a Saint;

Far above Nature I make Art precede,

And before Sov’reigns give the poor the lead.
Many who’re call’d the learned and the wise,
Did I not help them, you would oft despise.
Nay, more—within my grasp together bound,
The King, the Beggar, and the Clown are found.
In one thing I excel the proudest Lords,—

You always may depend upon my words.

 

RIDDLE CLXIII.
W HEN you and I together meet,

We make up six in any street;
When I and you do meet once more,
Then both of us make up but four;
When I go hence, should you survive,
Though strange to say, you would be five;
If I am left and you are gone,
Then J, poor I, can make but one.