Drag the words to the correct places to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, returning them to the word bank and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks.
"Ah, are you digging on my grave,
My loved one? — planting rue?"
— "No: yesterday he went ______ wed
One of the brightest wealth has bred.
'It ______ hurt her now,' he said,
'That I should ______ be true.'"
"Then who is digging on my grave,
My nearest dearest kin?"
— "Ah, no: they ______ and think, 'What use!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit ______ Death's gin.'"
"But someone digs upon my grave?
______ enemy? — prodding sly?"
— "Nay: when she ______ you had passed the Gate
That shuts on all ______ soon or late,
She thought you no more worth ______ hate,
And cares not where you lie.
"Then, who ______ digging on my grave?
Say — since I have ______ guessed!"
— "O it is I, my mistress dear,
Your little dog , who still lives near,
And ______ I hope my movements here
Have not disturbed your rest?"
"Ah yes! You dig upon my grave…
Why ______ it not to me
That one true heart was ______ behind!
What feeling do we ever find
To equal ______ human kind
A dog's fidelity!"
"Mistress, I dug ______ your grave
To bury a bone, in case
I ______ be hungry near this spot
When passing on my ______ trot.
I am sorry, but I quite forgot
It ______ your resting place."