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To convent shrine at break of day
With palms together nuns repair;
Mid gleaming lamps they kneel and pray,
And chanted psalm allays each care.
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Here once, as a hag is bedizened with paint,
A devil lived, veil’d in the garb of a saint.
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The missing words of the lines “In praise of Sussex,” are apers, rapes, spear, spare, pears, reaps, parse, pares, all spelt with the same letters.