And sundry denizens of air
Are flying—aye, each to his nest;
And eager make at such an hour
All haste to reach the mansions blest.

are Gray, Moore, Byron, Pope, Dryden, Gay, Keats and Hemans.

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The enigma—

This multiplies me, I declare,
Though it reduces one;
A sty is foul if it is there,
By it a deed is done.

is solved by the letter n (me becomes men; one, none; a sty, nasty.)

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31

Lennie parsed the words he read,
Studying Praed’s fable;
Lennie’s mother rasped the bread,
Sophy drapes the table.
“Work while you are spared,” they said,
Spread while you are able!”