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Explain the passages with reference to the context :

Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.

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Context : The poet is sitting in a country churchyard. There are men lying ** in their small graves. Nobody and no sound can wake them up. They will never come back to life because they have ****. They were very simple, uneducated and poor people.

Explanation : In this stanza the poet says that the people who are ** here were very simple and useful. They worked hard for the nation. Fate never favoured them yet they were always contented. The history of their life is very short and simple. So the rich and great people should not laugh at them. They should not see them with hatred.

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