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Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:I love to rise in a summer morn,When the birds sing on every tree;The distant huntsman winds his horn,And the skylark sings with me.O ! what sweet company.But to go to school in a summer morn,O! it drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the day,In sighing and dismay.(1) ‘O ! what sweet company.’ What company is referred to here?(2) What is it that the boy hates to do in a summer morning?(3) How do children spend their day at school in a summer morning? Why so?

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1. The company of the sweet singing of birds like skylark is referred to here.

2. In a summer morning, the boy hates to go to school.

3. In a summer morning, children spend their day at school sighing and in utter disappointment as they do not like to learn under the strict supervision of a teacher with outdated ideas about schooling.



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