Question

Which lines in the poem indicate its theme?
A Shadow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Answer 1

I said unto myself, if I were dead,
What would befall these children? What would be
Their fate, who now are looking up to me
For help and furtherance? Their lives, I said,
Would be a volume wherein I have read
But the first chapters, and no longer see
To read the rest of their dear history,
So full of beauty and so full of dread.
Be comforted; the world is very old,
And generations pass, as they have passed,
A troop of shadows moving with the sun;
Thousands of times has the old tale been told;
The world belongs to those who come the last,
They will find hope and strength as we have done.

Answer 2

The lines are:

What would befall these children?

Would be a volume wherein I have read

But the first chapters

And gererations pass as they have passed

a troop of shadows moving with the sun

thousands of times the old tale been told.

Answer 3

a troop of shadows moving with the sun

Answer 4

oh and multiple answers are accepted

Answer 5

also the last one and the one before

Answer 6

so a troop of shadows moving with the sun and thousands of times has the old tale been told ?

Answer 7

idk lol

Answer 8

it was wrong

Answer 9

it was 'what would befall on these children' and 'And gererations pass as they have passed'