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N COMPETITION No 287 you were invited to use given rhymes to make a poem in a game of , popular since the 17th century and popular with you. The rhyme words came from ‘Death lies in wait for you, you wild thing in the wood’ by John Masefield, published in his collection in 1916. They really provoked your imagination. Max Ross cleverly reworked Robert's Frost's snowy going to Peter Wilson.

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