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Article in Prajavani on SSLC second language English textbook

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Nursery Rhymes

Children are never bored of singing rhymes. What makes rhymes so absorbing? Probably it is the rhythm that is the first attraction. There is no compulsion to comprehend a rhyme. There may not be anything to comprehend at all. So it does not threaten a singer.
- P. Ishwara Bhat

Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari

Click the link below to download pdf copy of Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari
http://www.gita-society.com/section3/mahabharata.pdf

SSLC English Textbook

Second language English textbook for SSLC.

Sweet little red feet

Today I observed a dove at Keregodi Rangapura near Tiptur. The dove's feet were red. Until today I didn't know that the dove's feet are red. This incident reminded me John Keat's lines:

Sweet little red feet! Why would you die?

Blessed am I

The following lines are given as pre-reading activity for the lesson 'The Will of Sacrifice' (p. 112) prescribed for 9th standard:

Blessed am I that I am born to this land
I had the luck to love her.
What care I if queenly treasure is not in her store
But precious enough is for me
the living wealth of her love

These lines are an excerpt from a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. For the full version of the poem click the link below:
http://tagoreweb.in/render/ShowContent.aspx?ct=Verses&bi=72EE92F5-BE50-40C7-6E6E-0F7410664DA3&ti=72EE92F5-BE50-4EA7-EE6E-0F7410664DA3

This poem is rendered into Kannada by Kuvempu. The above lines in Kannada translation are as follows:
ಭಾರತಾಂಬೆಯೆ ಜನಿಸಿ ನಿನ್ನೊಳು ಧನ್ಯನಾದೆನು ದೇವಿಯೇ
ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೇಮದಿ ಬೆಳೆದು ಜೀವವು ಮಾನ್ಯವಾದುದು ತಾಯಿಯೇ
ರಾಣಿಯಂದದಿ ಮೆರೆಯೆ ಸಿರಿತನವಿಹುದೊ ಏನೋ ಅರಿಯೆನು
For full version of the Kannada poem click the link below:
http://kannada-lyric.blogspot.in/2012/10/blog-post_9467.html

The Dove

The poem 'The Dove' written by John Keats is prescribed for SSLC. The lines 3,4 and 5 are different from the original version. The lines in the textbook are as follows:

O, what could it grieve for? it was tied,
With a single thread of my own hand's weaving;
Sweet little red feet, why should you die?

But in the original version, these lines are as follows:

O what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied

With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving:

Sweet little red feet! Why would you die?

For clarification, click the link below:
http://mural.uv.es/ancampe/keats.html