Halfway Down

A. A. Milne

1882 to 1956

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Track 1

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.

Every 10th word

Halfway down the stairs
is a stair
where i sit.
there isn't any
other stair
quite like
it.
i'm ______ at the bottom,
i'm not at the top;
so ______ is the stair
where
I always
stop.

Halfway up ______ stairs
Isn't up
And it isn't down.
It isn't ______ the nursery,
It isn't in town.
And all sorts ______ funny thoughts
Run round my head.
It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
Instead!

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