[And here's this sharp lad. Elizabeth seems happy to meet with him again and indeed it reflects in the playful tone of her voice.]

The perfect sort of person then for charades, for what would be the amusement in one who may guess the answer too readily.

[Ahem.]

I do not know how you might play charades so first let me say this: "my first" is a clue to the first syllable, "my second" to the next and "my whole" is the word I wish guessed.

[Now then.]

You witness in my beauteous first
The wonders of creation;
My second is blessed or cursed,
As he fulfills his station:
My whole dances round the year;
The present soon will disappear.