Read the fourth stanza from "Mutability.” It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.

What is emphasized by Shelley’s metaphorical statement that "the path of its departure still is free”?

No path is ever the same.
Time passes by very quickly.
Emotions are ever changing.
All people feel joy and sorrow

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.