Click on the best question to ask before reading the rest of the passage. A cute little white girl in a blue cap feeding her big cow on a piece of bread in a green field with flowers on a sunny summer day
At what time does the sun set where this story takes place?
What about the heron?
Had the girl been in these woods before?
Does the girl live on a farm?

Read the passage. when i consider how my light is spent ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide, lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my maker, and present my true account, lest he returning chide; “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” in line 7 of sonnet xix by john milton, the speaker asks, “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” what does his question mean? why must god make us suffer to work? what shall one charge god to work in the dark? how does god expect him to work when he is blind? is god trying me?