It was caused by an earthquake.
"Stories are the wildest things of all" means they cannot be controlled, because they are the product of someone's free imagination. Just as we cannot regulate wild horses, we cannot regulate the stories that someone else thinks up. Once conceived in the mind, stories can go anywhere!
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B)The mention of "to roam" and "'round the Pole" suggest that the poem takes place during a man's journey around the country.
or it can be option D
you can consider reading the whole poem and see if it matches with the incident mentioned in option D or you can post the whole poem so that i can take my time to analyze the whole setting of the poem.( if you know from which poem this stanza is taken from)
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