Read the passage:
 I find them in the garden,
 For there's many here about;
 And often when I go to plough,
 The ploughshare turns them out!
 For many thousand men," said he,
 "Were slain in that great victory.
 What is the tone in the passage?
 A. bleak
 B. matter-of-fact
 C. bitter 
 D. sincere