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CHARADE XXIV.

Y first is somewhat soft and yellow,
Especially in Spring:
My next a busy meddling fellow,
For ever on the wing;
My whole, like an inconstant rover,
From fair to fair one flies,
Till, his career of pleasure over,
He, drooping, sinks and dies.

 

CHARADE XXy.
MI Y first is a term to relate

A circumstance present or past;
And those who are much prone to prate,
My second will spout away fast.

My whole, in the days of our youth,
Is what we extremely despised;

And though it say nothing but truth,
Yet it never need hope to be prized.