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THE SAGE AND THE FOOL.

" The air hath bubbles as the water hath.* * * * and do but blow them to their trials, the bub-bles are out." Shakspeare.

" How he marks his wayWith dreadful waste of what deserves to shine!Art, genius, fortune, elevated power,—

With various lustres these light up the world,Which Death puts out, and darkens human race."— Young.

When this globe of the earthFirst sprang into birth,

And man on its surface 'gan crawl,'Twas knowledge he sought,—But a bubble he caught,

And gave for an apple his all.

And we hear, too, beside,

That the bubble of prideDrove a host of the angels from Heaven ;

Is it, then, such a wonder

That mortals should blunder,And break the command that was sriven ?