Directions : Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.

Alas! for this gray shadow, once a man-

So glorious in his beauty and thy choice,

Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem'd

To his great heart none other than a God!

I ask'd thee,' Give me immortality.

Then did'st thou grant mine asking with smile,

Like wealthy men, who care not how they give.

But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills,

And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me,

And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd

To dwell in presence of immortal youth,

Immortal age beside immortal youth,

And all I was in ashes.