Find in the poem, lines that match the following. Read both one after another.
(i) I have nothing to give you
Except goodwill and cheer.
(ii) Her happiness was no more
Than sorrow in disguise.
(iii) The king’s might was not worth much.

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Solution

(i) ‘I hire you with nothing.’
(ii)‘Her smile paled and melted into tears’.
(iii)‘But his power counted for naughty’.

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