Which lines in the poem indicate its theme?
A Shadow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I said unto myself, if I were dead,
[What would befall these children?] What would be
Their fate, who now are looking up to me
For help and furtherance?<span> Their lives, I said,</span>
[Would be a volume wherein I have read]
[But the first chapters], and no longer see
To read the rest of their dear history,
So full of beauty and so full of dread.
Be comforted; the world is very old,
[And generations pass, as they have passed,]
[A troop of shadows moving with the sun;]
[Thousands of times has the old tale been told;]
The world belongs to those who come the last,
<span>They will find hope and strength as we have done.</span>
<span>Can be multiple different phrases, and the choices are the sentences in the [ ].</span>
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