Question 67
MediumOriginal questionRise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore, and set our free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the sons of the sea.
No longer delay, let us away in the track of the sea-gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.
Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love.
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the and the dance of the wild foam's glee:
Row, brothers, row to the blue of the , where the low sky mates with the sea.
In "The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night", the wind is compared to
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The line says the wind lies asleep "like a child that has cried all night".
After a stormy night, the wind has gone quiet, like a tired child finally asleep.
Worth noting
The dawn holds the wind "in its arms" like a mother, but the question asks what the wind itself is compared to.
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