I doe this most abhorrid life despise Since tis to iustice a iust sacrifice.

A broken and a contrite heart, oh God, Thou wilt not despise."

Its commoner outbreaks everybody knows by sight and sound, and everybody except the miserably ignorant and silly despises.

Hence, to the Hindu, matter is an obstruction and a deception, and the Eastern mystic despises and rejects and subdues all that is material, and bends all his faculties on realising his spiritual consciousness, and dwelling in that.

Far from the sun and far from life, he defies death, just as the mason, poised on a slight scaffolding despises giddiness, watched only by the birds, surprised to see a creature without wings perched on such a dizzy height.

Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise?

Though Gallia's vaunts should fill the trembling skies, 'Till nature's undiscover'd regions start At the rude clamor;yet, shouldst thou despise, While thy brave subjects own a common heart.

LOCAL ATTACHMENT OF THE LOBSTER.It is said that the attachment of this animal is strong to some particular parts of the sea, a circumstance celebrated in the following lines: "Nought like their home the constant lobsters prize, And foreign shores and seas unknown despise.

They proffer of their fulsome food a share, And, 'Stay with us a while,' a false crone cries 'Unseemly is the strong who would the weak despise' He fain would pass, but leapt upon the ground, The proud, the fearless!