Could I but harmonise one kindly thought

Hartley Coleridge

Hartley Coleridge portrait

1796 to 1849

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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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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

Could I but harmonise one kindly thought,
Fix one image in a snatch of song,
Which maids might as they tripped along;
Or could I ease the heart, o’erfraught
With passionate truths for which the mind
Lacks form or utterance, with a single line;
Might lovers woo in phrase of mine,
I should not that I have lived for nought;
The world were to forget my name,
Could I bequeath a few words
Like his, the bard who never dreamed of fame,
Whose rhymes preserve from harm the pious birds;
Or his, that dim full many a star-bright eye
With woe Barbara Allen’s cruelty.

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