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Describe the reminiscences of the poet, when she sees the casuarina tree.

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Describe the reminiscences of the poet, when she sees the casuarina tree.

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The poet remembers how her days started with the sight of the Casuarina tree from her casement. She remembers how her loving companions played under the giant Casuarina tree. The memory of her beloved companions brings hot tears because they had succumbed to cruel tuberculosis. She remembers how well the tree accommodated birds to sing songs during days and nights. The tree had allowed the creeper to embrace it like a lady love. Though it sapped its vitality, like a gallant lover, allowed the creeper to stay around its neck like a scarf. She remembers how a baboon seated at the crest of the tree had watched beautiful sunrise while her young ones were leaping and playing in the lower branches of the giant tree.

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पाठ 2.2: Our Casuarina Tree - Exercise [पृष्ठ ५६]

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पाठ 2.2 Our Casuarina Tree
Exercise | Q 6. a) | पृष्ठ ५६

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……for my purpose holds

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Of all the western stars, until I die.

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Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

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