My second is pressed tightly round
To guard from any ill;
And when preparing to engage
Men find it useful still.
My first against attraction set
Will neutralise its power;
Aided by it, with bargains, some
May spend a happy hour.
You find my whole by careful search,
Which must not be forsaken;
It stands before what comes beyond,
Which may from it be taken.
is solved by Counterfoil.
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362
Scorned by the meek and humble mind,
And often by the vain possessed,
Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind,
I give the troubled spirit rest.
is solved by Nothing.
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SOLUTIONS
1
Here is both the sum without figures, and its counterpart in numbers:—