Which excerpt from "The Turtle” includes words that best express a tone of admiration and respect? breaks from the blue-black
skin of the water, dragging her shell
with its mossy scutes
of her patience, her fortitude,
her determination to complete
what she was born to do –
She’s only filled
with an old blind wish.
It isn’t even hers but came to her
she knows
she is a part of the pond she lives in,
the tall trees are her children,