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1. What is the missing girl's name in these lines: It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of _________ _________ ?
2. What is the missing name of the imaginary country in : ' Gaily bedight A gallant knight In sunshine and in shadow Had journeyed long Singing a song In search of __________ ?
3. Fill in the blank:' Love is not {all;} it is not ________ nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again'.?
4. What name did Carl Sandburg give to Chicago: 'Hog butcher for the world Tool-maker Stacker of Wheat Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freighthandler Stormy, husky brawling City of ____________ '?
5. What is the name of the R.C. priest whom Edgar Lee Masters immortalised in his Spoon River Anthology: ' You are over there, Father _______, Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave, Not here with us on the hill, Us of wavering faith, and clouded vision And drifting hope, and unforgiven sins.' ?
6. Fill in the blank: ' I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars , And the pismire is equally perfect , and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren And the tree-toad is a chef d'oeuvre for the highest And the running ___________ would adorn the parlors of heaven. ?
7. 'I believe a leaf of grass is no less than.. And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue, And a _____ is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.' What word is missing?
8. What is the missing word in these 'post-war' lines: 'There died a myriad And of the best among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilisation, For two gross of broken _____, For a few thousand battered books.?
9. A slightly feminist response to a hubby frowning upon his wife's 'borrowing' the book he was reading: 'You will not catch me reading any more. I shall be called a wife to pattern {by;} And some day when you knock and push the door, Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy, I shall be gone , and you may _________ for me.' Missing word ?
10. Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - 't Is the Majority In this, as All, prevail. Assent - and you are {sane;} Demur - you are straightway dangerous, And ____________________________________
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