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Time, You Old Gipsy Man

নবম-দশম শ্রেণি (মাধ্যমিক) - English for Toady - Unit Fourteen: Pleasure and Purpose | NCTB BOOK
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A. Read and answer the following questions.
1. Have you ever seen a gipsy? If yes, where?
2. Do gipsies live in our country?
3. In what ways are they different from the general people?
 

B. Now read the poem and answer the questions that follow. Time, You Old Gipsy Man
 

                                              Time, you old gipsy man,
 

Time, you old gipsy man,

Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for a day?
All things I'll give you,
Will you be my guest?
Bells for your jennet
Of silver the best,
Goldsmiths shall beat you
A great golden ring,

Peacocks shall bow to you,
Little boys sing,
Oh, and sweet girls will
Festoon you with may.
Time, you old gipsy,
Why hasten away?
 

Last week in Babylon,
Last night in Rome,
Under Paul's dome;
Under Paul's dial
You tighten your rein- 

only a moment

And off once again;

Off to some city
Now blind in the womb,

Off to another

Ere that's in the tomb.
Time, you old gipsy man, 

Will you not stay, 

Put up your caravan 

Just for a day?

                                                                                 -  Ralph Hodgson
Questions
1. Why does the poet call time an 'old gipsy man'?
2. Make a list of things the poet will offer time if it stays just for a day.
3. What else can you offer time if it stays for a day?

 

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