To bless a good man’s store;

Noon lulls us in a gloomy den,

And night is grown our day,

Up-rouse ye, then, my merry men!

And use it as ye may.

CATHERINE M. FANSHAWE

1765-1834

85. A Riddle on the Letter H

’Twas in heaven pronounced—it was mutter’d in hell,

And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell;