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[Solved] The field and the cloud are lovers And between them I am a messenger of mercy. I quench the thirst of the one I cure the ailment of the other. (a) How is the rain ‘a messenger of mercy’? (b) What does the rain do?
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08/02/2021 7:01 pm
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
The field and the cloud are lovers
And between them I am a messenger of mercy.
I quench the thirst of the one I cure the ailment of the other.
(a) How is the rain ‘a messenger of mercy’?
(b) What does the rain do?
(c) What do you mean by ‘ailment’?
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08/02/2021 7:03 pm
(а) Rain takes mercy on the field and the cloud (the separated lovers) and unite them by mediating between them.
(b) Rain satisfy both the field and the cloud.
(c) ‘disease’.
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