Mastering his pride the royal James
Came down upon the streaming Thames;
Like emigrants his court repair
To breath St Germain’s freer air.
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The drop letter lines are as follows:—
With lily leaves his oars are trifling,
Her eager hands their treasures rifling.
To the fair winds all cares I fling,
And echo faintly answers fling!
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The solution of the enigma with missing letters:—
“There was no good ... in the d...y, so the klim,” is—
There was no good air in the dairy, so the milk turned.