The second one is the best answer
Answer:
C “John Clark’s voice dropped almost to a whisper. ‘You’ll take the string of six horses to the ford at Plover’s Creek.’”
Explanation:
In this sentence he is whispering so this represents a secret.
The old age of a person. This is pretty easy since it says the answer at the beginning of the poem;
"Old age is a flight of a small cheeping bird".