18 OCTOBER 1968, Page 31

No. 523: Octet

COMPETITION

Competitors are invited to compose an eight- line poem or stanza of a poem on any one of the subjects given below, using four of the fol- lowing five pairs of words as end-rhymes. The rhymes are taken from a well-known poem. The rhyme scheme is optional.

The words: trash, cash; crude, nude; indigna- tion, propagation; know, GPO; post, toast.

The subjects: Letter to the Postmaster General; an Olympic affair; a communication from Apollo.

In addition to the usual prizes, a special prize of one guinea will be awarded to the first entry opened that correctly identifies the poem from which the rhymes were taken. Entries, marked `Competition No. 523,' by 27 October.