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Select the correct text in the passage.
In which three parts of this excerpt from "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold does the speaker describe the sorrow and confusion that he wants
to escape?
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating to the breath
of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another for the world, which seems
Tolle before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.