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Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

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प्रश्न

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Their hands are ours, and in their lines, we read
A labour not different from our own.

  1. Who does ‘their’ refer to?
  2. What does the poet mean by ‘lines we read’?
  3. What does not differ?
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उत्तर

  1. All the people from other countries of the world.
  2. The poet means lines that show hard work done by the hands.
  3. Labour does not differ. Hard work is the same for all human beings.
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