Read the excerpt and complete the sentences that follow. a song of the english by rudyard kipling (excerpt) fair is our lot -- o goodly is our heritage! (humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth! ) for the lord our god most high he hath made the deep as dry, he hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the earth! yea, though we sinned -- and our rulers went from righteousness -- deep in all dishonour though we stained our garments' hem. oh be ye not dismayed, though we stumbled and we strayed, we were led by evil counsellors -- the lord shall deal with them! . keep ye the law -- be swift in all obedience -- clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. make ye sure to each his own that he reap where he hath sown; by the peace among our peoples let men know we serve the lord! in the poem, the word goodly means 1.) and the phrase "evil counsellors" refers to 2.)   1 a.) joyful b.) indians c.) hearty d.) admirable 2 a.) indians b.) ancestors c.) warriors d.) rulers

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt