TNPSC English Study Material - Part C

TNPSC English Study Material


TNPSCS English Syllabus

14. Mention the Poem in which these lines occur

Granny, Granny, please comb My Hair - With a friend - To cook and Eat - To India – My Native Land - A tiger in the Zoo - No men are foreign –Laugh and be Merry – The Apology - The Flying Wonder

To India- My Native Land – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

My country! in your days of glory past

A beauteous halo circled round your brow,

And worshipped as a deity you were...

Where is that glory, where that reverence now?

your eagle pinion is chained down at last

And grovelling in the lowly dust are you;

Your minstrel has no wreath to weave for you

Save the sad story of your misery

Well — let me dive Into the depths of time,

And bring from out of the ages that have nailed

A few small fragments of those wrecks sublime,

Which human eyes may never more behold:

And let the guerdon of my labour be

My fallen country! One kind wish from you!

NOTE: The Above Poem has taken from Tamil Nadu Text Book.