Waiting At The Window
A. A. Milne
1882 to 1956
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These are my two drops of rain
Waiting on ______ window-pane.
I am waiting here to see
Which the ______ one will be.
Both of them have different names.
______ is John and one is James.
All the best ______ all the worst
Comes from which of them is first.
James has just begun to ooze.
He's the one ______ want to lose.
John is waiting to begin.
He's ______ one I want to win.
James is going slowly on.
Something sort of sticks to John.
John is moving ______ at last.
James is going pretty fast.
John is ______ down the pane.
James is going slow again.
James ______ met a sort of smear.
John is getting very near.
Is he going fast enough?
(James has found a ______ of fluff.)
John has quickly hurried by.
(James ______ talking to a fly.)
John is there, and ______ has won!
Look! I told you! Here's the sun!