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1. 'An eye in a _____ face
Saw an eye in a _____ face.
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in a low place
Not in a high place."'
2. "Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright _______ his jacket is, and his boots are ________.
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master:
His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster."
3. "His sword was long, his lance was keen,
his shining helm afar was seen;
the countless stars of heaven's field
were mirrored in his ________ shield."
4. "Of ________ leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and ________ sun
and wind upon my hair."
5. "Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on stony bed,
never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.
In the ________ wind the stars shall die,
and still on _______ here let them lie,
till the dark lord lifts his hand
over dead sea and withered land."
6. "Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a ________ nightfall!"
7. "Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one ________ tree."
8. "The world was young, the mountains ______,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Durin woke and walked alone."
9. "A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet ________ treasure inside is hid."
10. "The finest rockets ever seen:
they burst in stars of ________ and _______,
or after thunder golden showers
came falling like a rain of flowers."
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