CHARADES. 99

With unflinching exertion and desperate zeal,
By my whole are the deserts of Araby trod;
‘When he sojourns, with high-beating bosom to kneel
At the impious shrine of his prophet and god.

 

CHARADE XY.
ID they but know how great a prize
My first, well used, would send;
Those mortals now who most despise,
Would claim it for their friend.

But thoughtless youth too soon is pleased,
And apt to wander wrong;

And by my second’s aid gets eased
Of that which seem’d so long,

And you, ye fair, who trifling spend
The fleeting hours of time,

The warning of my whole attend,
And so improve your prime.

 

CHARADE XVI,

M* first is a prop; my second is a prop; my
whole is nothing else than a prop.