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UNIT FIFTEEN
TALKING ABOUT THE PAST (III):
COMPARING PAST AND PRESENT
Reading
Curriculum Development Centre
A. Engage yourself
Look at the picture, and guess answers to the following questions.
a. When do you generally go on a swing?
b. Can you name any ¿ve birds that you have seen in your locality?
c. What does the poet remember in the ¿ rst stanza?
CDC
B. Study time
Read the following poem, and ¿nd out how the narrator feels the difference
between past and present.
Past and Present
I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.
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