The missing words are nectar, Cretan, canter, trance, recant.
53
I Satan but for rebel act
Without a stain should be;
But this is at an end, in fact
None find a saint in me.
54
“Oh for a break in this vast solitude,
This endless rise and fall of brake and moor!”
Soliloquised a baker in sad mood,
As through the lonely hills the staff of life he bore.
55
THE SEA SERPENT
’Twas in mid-ocean that we saw him play,
Like a demoniac in his sports, and they
Amused us, as a good comedian may.