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Read the poem below and fill in the gaps, choosing appropriate pairs of rhyming words, to make them meaningful. Little things Little drops of water, Little grains of ______ Make the mighty ocean

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Read the poem below and fill in the gaps, choosing appropriate pairs of rhyming words, to make them meaningful.

Little things

Little drops of water,
Little grains of ______
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant ______.

Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they ______,
Make the mighty ages
Of ______,

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of ______
Make this earth an Eden,
Like the heaven a ______

(love - above / sand - land / be - eternity)

Fill in the Blanks
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Solution

Little things

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love
Make this earth an Eden,
Like the heaven above

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