3 DECEMBER 1983, Page 38

Competi t ion

No. 1298: Fin de siècle

Set by Jaspistos: A sonnet, please, in the manner of a tired poet of the end of the last century, with the following rhyming words: wears, row, glow, stares, dares, below, know, unawares, breasts, towers, breath, rests, death, flowers. Entries to 'Competi- tion No. 1298' by 16 December.