A lot of people have made the very valid point that it is a bit rich for a Britisher to criticise Indian food as being bland!

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Unless it is read runningly, the metrical movement will not be felt. For the meaning, it is enough to have the class simply get the main idea in each stanza. Then the poem may be memorized.

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