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POETRY

Before You Read :
Read the following passage and answer the questions that
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follow.
Four friends – Raju , Akbar , John and Mohan – are looking sad.
Each one of them has lost something. Raju lost his cricket bat
which he was very fond of. Akbar had a very good story book
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and he lost it when, by mistake, it fell into a pond. John lost
his collection of rare stamps which he had collected over a
few years. Mohan lost his mother, who died of a massive heart
attack.

1) Whose loss , do you think, is the greatest?

2) Why do you think the loss of other things is not that im-
portant?
3) Which of the losses can be compensated and which cannot be?

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Introduction: Youth is the best period of human life. It is the
sweetest phase of life. It fills a person with dreams. One should
make the best use of one’s youth because when it is gone, much
of one’s strength is gone.
Your teacher will recite the poem. Listen to it.

It Never Comes Again

(Memorization)

- Richard Henry Stoddard

There are gains for all our losses,
There are balms for all our pain,
But when youth , the dream , departs,
It takes something from our hearts,
And it never comes again. 5
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