Oh! the old swimmin hole! in the happy days of yore, when i ust to lean above it on the old sikamore, oh! it showed me a face in its warm sunny tide that glazed back at me so gay and glorfied it made me love myself , as if i leaped to caress my shadder smilin up at me with sich tenderness. but them days is past and gone and old times tuck his toll from the old man came back to the old swimmin home .. a) starts with a description of the speaker and ends with a description on the swimming hole b) starts with a happy memory of the swimming hole and ends with a somber statement c) starts with a somber memory of the swimming hole and ends with a happy statement d) starts with a description of the swimming hole and ends with a description of the speaker

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,