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The missing words are indicated below by italics:—
A sutler sat in his ulster grey,
Watching the moonbeams lustre play
On a keg that in the bushes lay;
And these were the words of his song:—
“Thou rulest the weak, thou lurest the strong,
To thee the result of bad deeds doth belong.”
And the leaves with a rustle took up the sad song.
It would be difficult to find a better specimen than this of seven words spelt with the same letters.
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In these lines each of the words in italics is longer by one letter than the one before, the same letters being carried on in varied order:—
Nature I love in every land,
On burning plain, by wooded rill;
Where Ind is girt by coral strand,
Or Edin rears her castled hill.
Then deign from me the tale to hear,
How, true to one design, the bee
Once singled out keeps year by year
The leadings by her instinct given,
Which teach her, wheresoe’er she roam,
In every clime beneath the heaven,
To build the same six-angled home.