JANDKNCERT |Tulip Series | English 5th |

Paper Boats | Poem 7 | English | Class 5th | Questions and Answers |

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream.

In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the village where I live.

I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and know who I am.

I load my little boats with shiuli flowers from our garden, and hope that these

blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night.

I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the little clouds

setting their white bulging sails.

I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to

race with my boats!

When night comes, I bury my face in my arms and dream that my paper boats

float on and on under the midnight stars.

The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading is their baskets full of dreams.

R. N. Tagore

float: stay on the surface of a river تیرنا

running: flowing رواں

shiuli: a kind of flower-like jasmine ایک قسم کا پھول

bloom: flower کلی

launch: put paper boats in water کاغذ کی کشتی کا چلانا

lading (n): the action of loading a ship or a boat; the act of bailing and dipping سامان لادھنا

Q1. Who is the speaker of the poem?

Ans.The child is the speaker of the poem.