Question 69
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.
What do the lines "The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother" show about the fishermen?
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
They call the sea their mother, the cloud their brother and the waves their comrades.
Speaking of nature as family shows how at home they feel with it.
Worth noting
They are going out to sea eagerly, which rules out fear of it.
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