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These are the completed lines—
What mars a land so sadly as a war?
What days as dark as days that wars alarm?
Alas! ask any, ask at hand, afar,
All shall call war a harass and a harm.
Why call, as ballads talk, that ghastly art
All gallant acts—a grand and manly part?
It will be seen that “a” was the only missing letter.
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