Sonnet: To Liberty (1796) by Mary Robinson

Oh! Liberty! transcendent and sublime!

Born on the mountain's solitary crest;

Nature thy nurse, thy fire unconquered Time,

Truth, the pure inmate of thy glowing breast!

Oft dost thou wander by the billowy deep,

Scattering the sands that bind the level shore,

Or, towering, brave the desolating roar

That bids the tyrant tempest lash the steep!

'Tis thine, when sanguinary demons lour,

Amidst the thickening hosts to force thy way;

Which statement BEST describes the speaker’s point of view at the end of the poem in lines 13 and 14?

A.

The speaker believes that humanity will always value liberty.

B.

The speaker believes that the pursuit of liberty will end the world.

C.

The speaker thinks that liberty is not enough to sustain humanity.

D.