Which two lines in the poem indicate its theme?
A Shadow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I said unto myself, if+ were dead,
A.)[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
B.)[Would be a volume wherein I have read]
C.)[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
D.)[And generations pass, as they have passed,]
E.)[A troop of shadows moving with the sun]
F.)[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