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प्रश्न
Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.
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उत्तर
Nightingale sings in the poet’s garden.
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Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.
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Grew thin and treacherous as air.
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Unto thy honor, Tree, beloved of those
Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose,
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Of all the western stars, until I die.
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Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect
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To see your flag-bird flap his vans Where I, to heart’s desire, Perched him!’
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