To Live Merrily

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick portrait

1591 to 1674

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How to Play Cloze Games

A cloze game is a reading comprehension activity where certain words are removed from a text and you need to fill in the blanks with the correct words. This helps improve vocabulary, reading comprehension, and understanding of context.

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In this mode, you can:

Drag & Drop Mode

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Game Features

Winning

When you fill all the blanks correctly, you'll see a congratulations message and confetti animation! The progress bar will show 100% completion.

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Missing Words

Now is the time for mirth;
Nor cheek or be dumb;
For with th' flowery earth
The golden is come.

The golden pomp is come;
For now tree does wear,
Made of her pap and gum,
beads of amber here.

Now reigns the Rose, and
Th' Arabian dew besmears
My uncontrolled brow,
And my hairs.

Homer, this health to thee!
In sack of a kind,
That it would make thee see,
Though wert ne'er so blind

Next, Virgil I'll call forth,
pledge this second health
In wine, whose each cup's
An Indian commonwealth.

A goblet next I'll drink
To Ovid; and suppose
Made he the pledge, he'd think
The had all one nose.

Then this immensive cup
Of wine,
Catullus! I quaff up
To that terse of thine.

Wild I am now with heat:
O Bacchus! cool thy rays;
Or frantic I shall eat
Thyrse, and bite the Bays!

Round, round, the roof run;
And being ravish'd thus,
Come, I will drink tun
To my Propertius.

Now, to Tibullus next,
This I drink to thee;
—But stay, I see a text,
That this presents to me.

Behold! Tibullus lies
Here burnt, whose small return
Of ashes scarce suffice
To fill little urn.

Trust to good verses then;
They only aspire,
When pyramids, as men,
Are lost i' th' fire.

And when all bodies meet
In Lethe to drown'd;
Then only numbers sweet
With endless life are crown'd.

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