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UNIT - 7

Prose

Before you read
Not to be republished
Read the following lines.

Blessed am I that I am born to this land
I had the luck to love her.
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What care I if queenly treasure is not in her
Store but precious enough is for me

the living wealth of her love

Work in pairs /groups and answer the following questions
orally:
1. Why does the poet think that he is blessed?

2. What is very precious for the poet?
3. Why does the poet value ‘living wealth’ more than
‘queenly treasure’? Discuss in groups.

Read on
The Will of Sacrifice

1. Bhagat Singh was born on September 27,
1907, in Khatkar Kalan, Punjab, in British In-
dia. His grandfather Arjan Singh, father Kishan
Singh and Uncle Ajit Singh, were all active in
the freedom struggle.

2. Young Bhagat Singh came in contact with
some well-known political leaders like Lala La-
jpat Rai and Ras Bihari Bose while studying at
the local D.A.V. School in Lahore, in 1916. In
response to Mahatma Gandhi’s call for non-cooperation
against British rule in 1921, Bhagat Singh left his school
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