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5. Rough and dull in earthy nest,
Polished into lustre bright,
Man obeyeth its behest,

its omnipotence of might.

5. On the mountain's gorge he stood,
Lavish of heroic blood,

That his country might not fall
Victim of a foreign thrall;
Battling on that mountain-side
He and his three hundred died.

7. The moral of fables, the pest of the tropics,

Where daily its mischiefs are wearisome topics;

It eats through your timbers, it eats through your boots,
It bites at your skin and spoils all your good looks.

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With stealthy creep her Anacondic coils

O'er the wide desert on her prey advance;
Amid his hills, rent by intestine broils,
Her victim feels the fascinating glance,
As every struggle of dissention draws
Him to the gullet of those greedy jaws.
1. Sindbad the Sailor mounted me,
And through the sky I bore him;
Aladdin's wife offended me,
In rage I nearly tore him.

2. Sunshine in a shady place,

Lions licked her virgin hand.

3. Trust me, 't was a useless case
To attempt it in the Strand.

4. Rome's famous general, bald before his years;
Pelissier's predecessor in Algiers,

But now degraded to such vulgar spheres,
You call his name,-a woolly head appears.

5. He built that window, broad and high,

Whence stepped a crownless king to die.
6. White Lady! White Lady! how oft as a child
I looked for thy shape by the waterfall wild,
And saw in the foam-sheet the waft of thy dress,
In the autumn-gold birch-spray the curl of thy tress,
And heard in the plash of the stream as it fell,
The murmuring cadence of sorcery's spell.

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171. The Isle of Skye.

172. Because it makes a sty nasty.

173. Because all the boxes are in tiers (tears).

174. Because it is not a sole, dear!
175. Mousseline de Laine.

176. Because he is a thin king (thinking).

177. Because it's a tissue (at issue).

173. Because it is a (k)nightly occupation.
179. Because it attacks the joints.

180. Because it runs into Oxon and Herts.
181. Because they generally ride on the main.
182. Because he would ring his own Nell (knell).
183. When he is in quarters.

184. When Henry VIII. dissolved the Pope's
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185. Because he drives people to the Union.
186. Dwarfs.

187. Because he is wet and hairy (veterinary).
188. Because they are too sordid (two sworded).
189. When he has his pianoforte (piano for tea).

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