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Read the line from "84" by Rabindranath Tagore.

In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring
morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.

What is the effect of the figurative language in these lines?

The personification shows how happiness is quick to fade.
The metaphor illustrates what it was like to live in the past.
The personification suggests that past happiness can last a long time.
The metaphor illustrates how one can be truly happy only in spring.

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The personification suggests that past happiness can last a long time. The line gives "joy" human qualities (it "sang" and sent a "voice" across a hundred years), implying that that earlier joy endures.