Question 1 Report
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and.gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
The meaning of the expression, Ere slumber's chain has bound me is