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Question
Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me?"....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.
Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.
Which line is a contrast to the welcome he had received.
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Solution
The lines are:
For they fling, whoever has a mind,
Stones at me for my year’s misdeeds.
In spite of this self-sacrifice, the good deeds are seem to be oft been forgotten.
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