To honour the birth of WH Auden on February 21st 1907 this missing words quiz is his most famous poem – Funeral Blues (published in 1938).
The poem is in order, simply match up the missing words.
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Stop all the clocks, — off the telephone.
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cut
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switch
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— the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
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prevent
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stop
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— the pianos and with muffled drum
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silence
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sound
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Bring out the coffin, let the — come.
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mourners
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grievers
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Let aeroplanes circle — overhead
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moaning
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groaning
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Scribbling in the sky the — He is Dead,
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message
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words
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Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the — doves,
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public
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white
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Let the traffic policemen wear — cotton gloves.
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black
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navy
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He was my North, my South, my East — West,
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and
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not
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— working week and my Sunday rest
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my
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the
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My noon, my midnight, my —, my song;
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talk
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laugh
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I — that love would last forever, I was wrong.
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thought
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believed
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The — are not wanted now; put out every one,
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stars
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candles
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Pack up the — and dismantle the sun.
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moon
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stars
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Pour away the — and sweep up the wood;
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ocean
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sea
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For — now can ever come to any good.
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nothing
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nought
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