“May-Day” is an 1867 poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the poem, the speaker describes the sounds of nature: __________
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mediumWhich quotation from “May-Day” most effectively illustrates the claim?
A
“The million-handed sculptor moulds / Quaintest bud and blossom folds, / The million-handed painter pours / Opal hues and purple dye.”
B
“Firm-braced I sought my ancient woods, / Struggling through the drifted roads; / The whited desert knew me not, / Snow-ridges masked each darling spot.”
C
“The sparrow meek, prophetic-eyed, / Her nest beside the snow-drift weaves, / Secure the [tree] yet will hide / Her callow brood in mantling leaves.”
D
“What was that I heard? / Harp of the wind, or song of bird, / Or vagrant booming of the air, / Voice of a meteor lost in day?”