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Assertive Sentence Narration Change Worksheet (Direct Speech to Indirect Speech) The Greenhouse Effect – Carl Dennis | Class 12 Sonnet no. 73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold | Class 12 Hawk Roosting – Ted Hughes | Class 12 Down The Rabbit-Hole – Lewis Carrol | Class 12 Tara- Mahesh Dattani | Class 12 Our Casuarina Tree – Toru Dutt | Class 12 From A Room of One’s Own [SHAKESPEARE’S SISTER] – Virginia Woolf | Class 12 The Night Train at Deoli – Ruskin Bond (বঙ্গানুবাদ) | Class 12 Amarnath-Sister Nivedita MCQs and Answers | Class 11

He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage.
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.

He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass
Near the water hole
Where plump deer pass.

He should be snarling around houses
At the jungle’s edge.
Baring his white fangs, his claws,
Terrorising the village!

But he’s locked in a concrete cell,
His strength behind bars.
Stalking the length of his cage.
Ignoring visitors.

He hears the last voice at night.
The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.

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