80 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

If now to know me more you need,
My wisdom must your wit exceed;
For were I farther known to ye,

No longer mystery there would be.

RIDDLE CLXYI.
W ONDERFUL being! whose tremendous power,

In wrath wide rolling o’er each earthly thing,
Destroys, within the space of one short hour,
The lowly cot, or palace of the king:
Yet by thy cheering influence alone,
Infusing pleasure and gay blooming health,
We leave our country and our darling home,
In search of science and untasted-wealth.
To thee we owe the large and rich supply
That commerce yields to every favour’d shore;
But thou oft causest the sad widow’s sigh,
And all the evils orphans most deplore.
Where thou wert formn’d, or whence thy wondrous birth
No mortal yet the secret e’er has found ;
Yet we acknowledge thy stupendous worth,
Still felt and dreaded to earth’s utmost bound.

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