A Charade Uses and Abuses of Amusement

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A Charade Uses and abuses of Uses & abuses of amusement

My first is a nickname applied to a race Who come to our shores, from over the sea;

With love in their hearts for their island home Mingled with the strangest ideas about being free

Free to do as they happen to choose - Wife and children to caress - or to abuse

And a sovereign he feels in hiis humble cot, With his bottle and, "pralies," if else he has not.

But if crowned, let it be in our quiet glades, Where we'll sing, honor to him, the stalwart "king of spades"

In my second, my first is sure to have a hand, Else what's the use of being free?

And in the fury of my wild and lawless band Most furious and wild is he.

My second knows not the pure and peaceful sway Of law or reason; but blind fury guides its way.

My whole loves his country with a devotion as pure, As the love that a father bears for his son,

Will weep for her shame, and in her righteous cause endure With courage and constancy till her cause is won

Charade My first is a preposition; my second is an article of masculine apparel; my third is a personal pronoun ; my fourth is used to obstinct passages; my whole is what all thinkers do.

Charade My first is a color, my second is a sentinel, my whole is a detestible character.