Directions: Select the correct text in the passage.
Which line best illustrates a theme of the poem?
excerpt from The Sower
by James Russell Lowell
I heard, as still the seed he cast,
How, crooning to himself, he sung.
15 'I sow again the holy Past,
The happy days when I was young.
20
Then all was wheat without a tare,
Then all was righteous, fair, and true
And I am he whose thoughtful care
Shall plant the Old World in the New.