You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over,
Though the donkey was bravest of all his ....;
He luxuriates now in perpetual clover,
And his master has gone to the prophet’s em⏞.

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238. MISSING WORDS

A ..... ..... on ....’. strands
Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes;
He left the ..... in Cupid’s hands,
And watched her ..... her tresses;
Tresses of ..... coloured gold,
Veiling, like any frock,
A tail which, as it did unfold,
Gave to poor Pat a shock.

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239. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

Where can you be “in a stone-pine garden”?

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240. MISSING WORDS

No ..... sympathy was ever shown,
Than when ..... news from Kingston ..... was known.