Eros Turannos%0D%0AEdwin Arlington Robinson%0D%0A%0D%0AShe fears him, and will always ask%0D%0AWhat fated her to choose him;%0D%0AShe meets in his engaging mask%0D%0AAll reasons to refuse him;%0D%0ABut what she meets and what she fears 5%0D%0AAre less than are the downward years,%0D%0ADrawn slowly to the foamless weirs%0D%0AOf age, were she to lose him.%0D%0A%0D%0ABetween a blurred sagacity%0D%0AThat once had power to sound him, 10%0D%0AAnd Love, that will not let him be%0D%0AThe Judas that she found him,%0D%0AHer pride assuages her almost,%0D%0AAs if it were alone the cost. --%0D%0AHe sees that he will not be lost, 15%0D%0AAnd waits and looks around him.%0D%0A%0D%0AA sense of ocean and old trees%0D%0AEnvelops and allures him;%0D%0ATradition, touching all he sees,%0D%0ABeguiles and reassures him; 20%0D%0AAnd all her doubts of what he says%0D%0AAre dimmed of what she knows of days --%0D%0ATill even prejudice delays%0D%0AAnd fades, and she secures him.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe falling leaf inaugurates 25%0D%0AThe reign of her confusion;%0D%0AThe pounding wave reverberates%0D%0AThe dirge of her illusion;%0D%0AAnd home, where passion lived and died,%0D%0ABecomes a place where she can hide, 30%0D%0AWhile all the town and harbor side%0D%0AVibrate with her seclusion.%0D%0A%0D%0AWe tell you, tapping on our brows,%0D%0AThe story as it should be, --%0D%0AAs if the story of a house 35%0D%0AWere told, or ever could be;%0D%0AWe'll have no kindly veil between%0D%0AHer visions and those we have seen, --%0D%0AAs if we guessed what hers have been,%0D%0AOr what they are or would be. 40%0D%0A%0D%0AMeanwhile we do no harm; for they%0D%0AThat with a god have striven,%0D%0ANot hearing much of what we say,%0D%0ATake what the god has given;%0D%0AThough like waves breaking it may be, 45%0D%0AOr like a changed familiar tree,%0D%0AOr like a stairway to the sea%0D%0AWhere down the blind are driven.%0D%0AQuestion%0D%0A%0D%0AWhat is the BEST definition of the word beguiles as it is used in line 20 of the poem?A causes laughtercauses laughter

B charms and comfortscharms and comforts
C horrifies and frightenshorrifies and frightens
D invokes despair and misery

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B charms and comforts

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Eros Turannos%0D%0AEdwin Arlington Robinson%0D%0A%0D%0AShe fears him, and will always ask%0D%0AWhat fated her to choose him;%0D%0AShe meets in his engaging mask%0D%0AAll reasons to refuse him;%0D%0ABut what she meets and what she fears 5%0D%0AAre less than are the downward years,%0D%0ADrawn slowly to the foamless weirs%0D%0AOf age, were she to lose him.%0D%0A%0D%0ABetween a blurred sagacity%0D%0AThat once had power to sound him, 10%0D%0AAnd Love, that will not let him be%0D%0AThe Judas that she found him,%0D%0AHer pride assuages her almost,%0D%0AAs if it were alone the cost. --%0D%0AHe sees that he will not be lost, 15%0D%0AAnd waits and looks around him.%0D%0A%0D%0AA sense of ocean and old trees%0D%0AEnvelops and allures him;%0D%0ATradition, touching all he sees,%0D%0ABeguiles and reassures him; 20%0D%0AAnd all her doubts of what he says%0D%0AAre dimmed of what she knows of days --%0D%0ATill even prejudice delays%0D%0AAnd fades, and she secures him.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe falling leaf inaugurates 25%0D%0AThe reign of her confusion;%0D%0AThe pounding wave reverberates%0D%0AThe dirge of her illusion;%0D%0AAnd home, where passion lived and died,%0D%0ABecomes a place where she can hide, 30%0D%0AWhile all the town and harbor side%0D%0AVibrate with her seclusion.%0D%0A%0D%0AWe tell you, tapping on our brows,%0D%0AThe story as it should be, --%0D%0AAs if the story of a house 35%0D%0AWere told, or ever could be;%0D%0AWe'll have no kindly veil between%0D%0AHer visions and those we have seen, --%0D%0AAs if we guessed what hers have been,%0D%0AOr what they are or would be. 40%0D%0A%0D%0AMeanwhile we do no harm; for they%0D%0AThat with a god have striven,%0D%0ANot hearing much of what we say,%0D%0ATake what the god has given;%0D%0AThough like waves breaking it may be, 45%0D%0AOr like a changed familiar tree,%0D%0AOr like a stairway to the sea%0D%0AWhere down the blind are driven.%0D%0AQuestion%0D%0A%0D%0AWhat is the BEST definition of the word beguiles as it is used in line 20 of the poem?A	causes laughtercauses laughter
B	charms and comfortscharms and comforts
C	horrifies and frightenshorrifies and frightens
D	invokes despair and misery

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B charms and comforts