Read the excerpt from "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Select four sets of lines in the poem that reflect the Victorian theme of seeking new adventures despite obstacles.
[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.] Come, my friends, ['Tis not too late to seek a newer world.]
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
[To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.]
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
[It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.]
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
[Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are--]
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
[Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.]