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Read the Above Lines and Answer the Question that Follow. What Does the Word ‘Harvest ‘ Connote Here? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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प्रश्न

Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun
To give it my loving friends to keep!
Naught man could do,have I left undone:
And you see my harvest, what I reap
This very day, now a year is run.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

What does the word ‘harvest ‘ connote here?

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उत्तर

Harvest, here means reward.

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