and so on to the end.
10
When ———— smiles, and sunbeams play
On flowers that ———— and deck the green,
———— can match the scene so gay
———— they crown the May-day queen?
The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters.
11
’Tis said of William, while his forces rested
On Albion’s ———, when Harold had been bested,
He made the ——— of his ——— fuse
Saxon spear-heads, to fashion into shoes.
Each missing word has the same six letters.