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  Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                       (a) When wasteful war shall statues overturn, (b) And broils root out the work of masonry, (c) Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. (a) What is meant by 'wasteful war'? (b) What does the word 'mars' in the third line refer to? (c) What does the phrase, The living record of your memory's mean?

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    (a)War is wasteful as it spreads death and destruction. (b) It refers to the Roman God of war. (c) It refers to the written document of the memory of the Poet's beloved, which continues even after  death.