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Question
Find the phrase/line in the poem that mean the following:
Hope lives on in very hard times, even when it gets nothing from you
Solution
“I've heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.”
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