Question

Which lines from the poem best support the inference that children are more spiritual than adults? Select each correct answer.

"The Youth, who daily farther from the east / Must travel, still is Nature's Priest," "
To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, / Forget the glories he hath known,"
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy!"
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:"
"Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;"

Answer 1

"The Youth, who daily farther from the east / Must travel, still is Nature's Priest,"

Explanation: the statement includes the words youth and priest, therefore it is comparing children to spirituality. Plus I took the test and got it correct ;)

Answer 2

Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own.

Step-by-step explanation:

This illustrates the innocents and open spirituality as infants to have the corrupt with all its pleasures and desires once older or once becoming physically aware.