Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
But must I confess how I liked him,
How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water trough
And depart peaceful, pacified and thankless,
Into the burning bowels of this earth?
Paraphrase. The poet says that he must admit that he liked the snake very much. He was glad that he came to drink at his water-trough silently like a guest. And he departed back into the burning bowels (bottom) of the earth peacefully, satisfied and unappreciated.
Questions
(a) What must the poet confess?
(b) Why was the poet glad?
(c) What is the word for ‘admit’ in the passage?
